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Purplebricks gives new COO a £1.1 million golden hello
Purplebricks has given its new Chief Operating Officer a £1.1 million golden hello. The company announced today that 45-year-old Vic Darvey, who joined the hybrid agency a few days ago, has been given...
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Zoopla PR chief leaves to join Chesterman at £30m used car website
Lawrence Hall, the PR brains behind much of Zoopla’s success over the past ten years and one of Alex Chesterton’s key lieutenants, has left the company. The 40-year-old’s departure comes just months...
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Is Brexit driving independents to take refuge in franchised brands?
Two of the UK’s best-known franchised estate agency chains have revealed significant numbers of new branches and an uptick in business activity despite the difficult sales market. The number of estate...
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Move over Henry Pryor! Russell Quirk relaunches himself as PR guru and media...
Emoov’s founder and former CEO Russell Quirk (pictured, above) has relaunched himself as a public relations consultant and property expert. The move comes just a month after eMoov went into...
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Hybrid letting agent joins forces with Airbnb management specialist
Hybrid letting agent Spotahome and Airbnb property management service Hostmaker have struck a distribution deal that will help London landlords ‘circumvent’ the city’s maximum short-term rental laws,...
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Hunters hoovers up 279-property lettings portfolio in Midlands
Lichfield branch team: LtoR: Francesca Foster, Jayne Parton, Rebecca Clarke, Nicola Clegg , Charlotte Dean . Franchised estate agency chain Hunters has kicked off the New Year with the purchase of a...
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Two teenagers charged after estate agency branch robbed at knife point
Two teenagers have been charged with multiple offences after a large knife was used to threaten staff at a London estate agency, police have revealed. An investigation was launched after two males...
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BBC criticises lettings industry over ‘opaque’ tenant deposit adjudications
The BBC Radio 4 programme You and Yours yesterday repeated long-standing criticisms of landlords and letting agents by lobbying group Generation Rent when its presenter Winifred Robinson said the...
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IN PICTURES: TDS HQ in Hemel Hempstead gutted by major fire
The offices of the Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) in Hemel Hempstead have been severely damaged after a fire broke out in the building, The Progression Centre. TDS revealed on Twitter that a ‘major’...
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TPO Conference 2019
Early Bird tickets Available now…for a limited time only The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme is delighted to officially announce that its annual conference will take place on Wednesday 10th July 2019...
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‘Dating app’ for house sharing tenants wins extra £24 million funding
A Spanish smartphone app that enables tenants to meet up online and rent properties together via a ‘Tinder’ style matching platform has raised a further £24 million to develop and expand its service...
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Fifth of independent letting agents will disappear by 2020, says Belvoir
The number of letting agents in the UK is set to shrink by a fifth over the next two years, franchised lettings giant Belvoir has claimed. This prediction is made by the company in its latest update...
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2019: signs are good!
What is it about tangible, traditional marketing that means it’s still an agent’s go-to promotional method? There are so many positive factors, from the ‘leave behind’ element and the ability to geo-...
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Onwards and upwards
At the Conservative Party Conference, James Brokenshire, Secretary of State for Housing and Local Communities, announced that the Government would look again at a permitted development (“PD”) right...
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Coventry consults on licensing rental properties in city centre
Coventry City Council has begun a 10-week consultation on introducing both selective and additional licensing in several areas that could see landlords charged £773 a year per rental property for a...
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Top marketing trends for 2019
Emerging technologies largely dictate how the digital marketing landscape changes – and this landscape is changing all the time. Estate and lettings agents must be prepared to embrace new marketing...
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2018? Great! 2019? Even better!
TWITTER The timeline: Twitter announced that they would bring back and allow users to view their timelines in a chronological order. It means that if you choose, you can fully opt out of “curated”...
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Auction stations!
There are now many estate agents partnering with auction houses – but many more who aren’t offering property sales by auction than are and I’d like to address that. As sales people we selfishly want to...
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The tenant fees ban – what next?
Agents argued against this ban; some of those arguments have been taken on board, others have not. We must, therefore, make the most of what is to come. Agents should be forward thinking about how...
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Tenancy Deposit Service restores emails and phones after HQ fire
The Progression Center in Hemel Hempstead before the fire. Phone lines for the Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) have been reconnected following Wednesday night’s fire at its headquarters in Hemel...
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