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Good news for tenants!
Renting became more affordable in 2018 thanks to a combination of a once-in-a-decade fall in annual rents and wage inflation, according to The Deposit Protection Service (DPS). 2018 was the first...
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SPF Annual Conference 2019
Scottish Property Federation’s Annual Conference 2019 – Creating value: Building Scotland’s Economy. We are delighted to confirm our keynote speaker for the 12th SPF Annual Conference – Derek Mackay...
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PROPTECH19
PROPTECH19 will explore how technology is fundamentally changing how real estate is used, developed, managed and invested in – looking at the opportunities for business leaders and their...
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London Resi Development 2019
The leading conference for the London Residential Development Market returns in March, with hundreds of the leading organisations and investors attending. The Event combines high level market analysis...
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CVAS 2019: What’s the Deal for Landlords?
2018 has been heralded the ‘year of the CVA’ but, post-Christmas trading and in an ever-challenging economic climate, will 2019 be worse? Will retailers continue to use CVAs as a restructuring tool...
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Tili passes 50,000 home movers target
Spark, the only multi-utility company that is built around the property industry, reports that Tili, the digital home move assistant launched last summer, has helped 50,000 home movers in setting up...
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The UK’s biggest and most reputable estate agents’ conference NAEA Propertymark National Conference is an essential opportunity to gain insights into key industry issues, receive valuable guidance to...
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Estate agent fined £4,000 for not displaying correct tenant and landlord fees...
A ‘rogue’ estate agent in London has been fined £4,000 for not displaying both details of its Client Money Protection scheme or accurate details of the fees it charges tenants and landlords. Atco...
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Welsh tenant fees ban to become law in September, First Minister reveals
A senior politician in Wales has revealed that its tenant fees ban is likely to become law this September. First Minister Mark Drakeford revealed the information during a meeting of 400 people at...
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OTM share price rises by over 40% in just two weeks
OnTheMarket’s share price jumped by 5% yesterday as the company’s stock continues its two-week-long fightback which has seen its shares increase by over 41% to £1.02p. Since it went public on London’s...
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Fancy packing a punch in the industry?
Evictions specialist Landlord Action is looking for estate agents and industry suppliers keen to take up boxing and compete at its fifth annual charity event on 23rd May in central London. Called...
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Corruption activists say UK crime agency should investigate estate agency in...
Leading global anti-corruption organisation Global Witness has called on the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to investigate an estate agency that took an advance rental payment of £390,000 from the...
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20% of EU construction workers considering leaving UK after Brexit
The UK’s house builders could lose up to a fifth of their workforce after Brexit, a leading recruiter has claimed, dashing the government’s hopes of building 300,000 homes a year by the mid-2020s....
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Fewer people are renting, reveals new research
A leading estate agency has published rental data that contradicts many of the key claims made about the private rental market by a well-known campaigning organisation. Generation Rent recently...
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50 proptech platforms
Technology has transformed the real estate industry, with a dizzying array of digital tools, from online listings and 360° virtual tours to property mobile apps. But real estate has always been based...
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Reeds Rains closures: trading one day, gone the next
The brutal nature of LSL’s dramatic branch network restructure has been revealed by details of two closures in Wales. The pair of Reeds Rains branches have been closed in the market town of Abergele...
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Transactions slump by a fifth in central London as Brexit bites
The central London prime housing market has continued to take a hammering, latest research by housing data platform LonRes has revealed. Its analysis of the sales market within the capital’s prime...
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Ewemove offers redundant LSL staff free franchises and £24k loan
Hybrid agency Ewemove is offering estate agents made redundant by LSL’s recent restructure of its Your Move and Reeds Rains businesses the chance to join the company’s franchise network for free. As...
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Letting agents using clandestine inventory companies to sidestep fees ban,...
An industry body has accused unscrupulous letting agents of setting up front companies to offer tenants ‘independent’ inventory reports which in reality are carried out by the agent managing the...
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London property firm fined £30,000 over three unlicensed HMOs
A property management company in London has been fined £30,000 after failing to licence three flats it had been operating as Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs). Crown Managed Properties Ltd and its...
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