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PRS Group finishes 2018 on ‘property high’, 2019 set to be even better
Graeme Carling The PRS Group, emerging as a major player in the UK’s property market, is ending its first year of business on a high as the sector continues to show promise. PRS, owned by Graeme and...
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Gloves are off! Purplebricks launches aggressive attack on traditional agents...
Purplebricks’ Australian business has launched a direct attack on traditional estate agents in Oz with a campaign fronted by the country’s answer to Phil Spencer, property pundit Barry Du Bois...
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Third of home buyers know EXACTLY which home they want to bag
Nearly a third of all house home buyers in the UK know which property or street they want to move to when considering their next step on the property ladder, it has been claimed. According to research...
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Leading deposit alternative firm rejects criticism by Jackson-Stops agent
Deposit replacement firm Reposit has rebuffed claims that both its product and those offered by its competitors could be in breach of the tenant fees ban due to come in on June 1st. The fees ban...
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HMRC reveals surprise rise in house sales during December
The number of house sales year-on-year during December increased by 3.6% to 102,300, latest figures from HMRC have revealed, but remain flat compared to the month before. HMRC’s seasonally-adjusted...
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Riders on the storm
In 2018, Connells Group shut down Hatched, Purplebricks’ shares slid after trouble Down Under and eMoov went into administration. And that’s just the big boys, but just because the online agents...
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Fisher German hooks new Managing Partner
Fisher German has appointed its current Chief Operating Officer (COO) Andrew Bridge, as Managing Partner, after a unanimous vote by partners, as Andrew Jackson will step down in March 2019 after 19...
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Tenant Fees Bill clears final parliamentary hurdle
The Tenant Fees Bill has passed it final hurdle in the House of Commons and will now receive Royal Assent before becoming law on June 1st. Its final debate in the Commons took place yesterday after 293...
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Is this the UK’s first property sale via Instagram?
A developer in London has revealed what is believed to be one of the first property sales in the UK to be directly traced back to a lead generated via social media picture sharing platform Instagram....
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Latvian property photos firm wins £1m backing to make agency snappers obsolete
A digital property photos service that is expecting to make traditional estate agency photographers redundant with its ‘one button’ high-resolution cameras has won a further £1 million in funding from...
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Mayor of London makes rent controls central plank of re-election bid
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has made rent controls a key plank of his 2020 re-election bid campaign. Khan says he wants to publish a new ‘blueprint’ for London’s private rental market including new...
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Judges reject Gascoigne Halman appeal in OnTheMarket competition case
The Court of Appeal has today dismissed Connell-owned estate agency Gascoigne Halman’s challenge to the original Competition Appeal Tribunal adjudication in July last year. That found that Agents’...
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All UK’s 1.5 million private landlords to join a compulsory redress scheme
All private landlords in the UK are to be forced to join a redress scheme, the government has revealed, scooping up over an estimated 1.5 million landlords into regulation. The announcement is part of...
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Connells claims its new homes division is most successful in UK
Connells has beefed up its New Homes division significantly with 14 new staff and revealed that it sold 9,000 units last year, giving it an approximate market share of 5%. The company also claims that...
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Build-to-Rent units leapt by a third last year as sector goes national
The number of new Build-to-Rent (BTR) units completed last year grew by nearly a third to 30,000 and is no longer just a London phenomenon, research by Savills has revealed. In total there are...
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Airbnb hosting firm attacks letting agents in London tube ads
An Airbnb hosting company backed by Marriott Hotels has launched an advertising campaign that calls for landlords to ‘drop their letting agent’. Posters created for the campaign are currently running...
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Appointments at Whites in Salisbury
Sarah Golod, Marcus Shepherd and Claire Gallagher Sarah Golob joins Whites as a property manager and Claire Gallagher’s appointment as accounts assistant, expanding their busy accounts department....
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Part time estate agent’s singing wins judges approval on ITV’s The Voice
A contestant on ITV talent show The Voice has been revealed to be a part-time estate agent. 21-year-old Ilianna Yianakou was one of nine singers to complete ‘blind’ auditions for the live TV show on...
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Has online and hybrid estate agents’ market share grab run out of steam?
The property market share of online and hybrid estate agents reduced from 7.6% to 7.2%, latest research by consultancy TwentyCI has revealed. It says that the demise of eMoov and recent Purplebricks...
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Shocking extent of ‘no fault’ evictions revealed by research
A fifth of all Millennial renters have experienced being forced out of their home by landlords seeking to sell their buy-to-let properties, it has been claimed. Research by online buy-to-let property...
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