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Jenny van Breda wrote a new post, SVA hammer falls on plots and listed buildings 5 hours, 23 minutes ago
SVA Property Auctions in Scotland sold 75% of the 19 lots offered at its autumn auction and raised over £500,000.
Given the environment of political uncertainty, Shaun Vigers, SVA Property Auctions’ Di […]
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Jenny van Breda wrote a new post, NAEA Propertymark National Conference 10 hours, 36 minutes ago
NAEA Propertymark National Conference is an opportunity to gain an understanding of the issues affecting the industry and to receive valuable guidance to help you develop as professionals, as well as getting […]
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Jenny van Breda wrote a new post, ARLA Propertymark Conference and Exhibition 2020 10 hours, 41 minutes ago
The UK’s biggest and most prestigious lettings forum
The ARLA Propertymark Conference and Exhibition celebrates 25 years with a very special line up. It is the largest event in the private rented sector a […]
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Jenny van Breda wrote a new post, Affordable Housing 2020 10 hours, 45 minutes ago
The hugely popular Affordable Housing Conference returns for it’s 14th year on 17th March.
The Event looks at the roles and opportunities for all players in the market, including Investors, Developers, […]
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Jenny van Breda wrote a new post, RICS Residential Property Conference 10 hours, 55 minutes ago
The residential property sector is in transition, join leading experts in the debate on how technology, innovation and new regulatory changes are moulding the future of the sector
In 2020 the RICS […]
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Jenny van Breda wrote a new post, London Resi Development 2020 11 hours, 21 minutes ago
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 with […]
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Nigel Lewis, Online Editor, The Negotiator wrote a new post, Leading industry figure claims Reservation Agreements being 'foisted' on industry 13 hours, 53 minutes ago
Two leading industry figures have crossed swords on Twitter over the proposed new Reservation Agreements being prepared for a government trial later this year, and the advisory group preparing the […]
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Nigel Lewis, Online Editor, The Negotiator wrote a new post, General Election latest: Conservatives make a U-turn on rent controls 21 hours, 54 minutes ago
Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has signalled a government U-turn on rent controls after revealing in an interview with the i newspaper that a Johnson administration would consider limited controls on rent […]
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Nigel Lewis, Online Editor, The Negotiator wrote a new post, Purplebricks farms out its customer service to Alexa 21 hours, 54 minutes ago
Purplebricks has revealed that from today onwards vendors will be able to use Amazon’s Alexa digital voice assistant to manage many aspects of their property’s sale.
This includes playing back messages fro […]
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Nigel Lewis, Online Editor, The Negotiator wrote a new post, Guest blog: Managing agents need to realise that the days of leasehold are numbered 21 hours, 54 minutes ago
Nearly everywhere in the developed world including Scotland commonhold-type systems are the norm so why does England and Wales still use the feudal leasehold system?
And what benefit does a leaseholder get […]
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Nigel Lewis, Online Editor, The Negotiator wrote a new post, App launches that will tell agents when people are planning to move 21 hours, 54 minutes ago
A smartphone app has begun raising money on crowdfunding platform Seedrs that says it can help estate agents and mortgage lenders understand when people are planning to move home.
Called Track, it is […]
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Nigel Lewis, Online Editor, The Negotiator wrote a new post, Are estate agents facing a property fraud epidemic? 3 days, 13 hours ago
Land Registry data shows that the level of property fraud – which is when criminal attempt to sell homes that don’t belong to them – has doubled over the past 10 years and more than quadrupled in terms of va […]
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Nigel Lewis, Online Editor, The Negotiator wrote a new post, Guestblog: Building trust in room renting platforms 3 days, 21 hours ago
Renting is increasingly becoming the norm for many young tenants.
Data reveals that 60% of home occupiers in London will be renters by 2025 and a ‘Generation Rent’ study found that two out of five bel […]
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Nigel Lewis, Online Editor, The Negotiator wrote a new post, EXCLUSIVE: Reservation Agreements move forward as final text is agreed 3 days, 21 hours ago
The government’s plans to introduce Reservation Agreements have taken a step forward after industry consultation group the Home Buying & Selling Group (HBSG) headed up by Kate Faulkner (pictured, above), r […]
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Nigel Lewis, Online Editor, The Negotiator wrote a new post, ASA and Emoov 'in discussions' over website amendments following complaint 3 days, 21 hours ago
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is ‘in discussions’ with reborn portal Emoov after consultant Andrew Stanton claimed that the portal is yet to fully update its website after being requested to do so […]
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Nigel Lewis, Online Editor, The Negotiator wrote a new post, PICS: Is this the best estate agent window Christmas effort so far? 3 days, 21 hours ago
Yesterday The Negotiator featured some of the best Christmas videos produced by estate agents so far and so early on in this festive season.
And we asked if anyone else felt they could better them.
We […]
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Jenny van Breda wrote a new post, Proptech lands in Warwickshire and the West Midlands 4 days, 5 hours ago
Allsopp & Allsopp has created a new proptech product with the feature ‘Find My Agent’, to allow clients to see where their dedicated estate agent is, on their way to a viewing. It also allows the client to fee […]
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Jenny van Breda wrote a new post, Plans approved at Canada Water 4 days, 7 hours ago
The creation of a new town centre at Canada Water in London passed a key milestone as Southwark Council Planning Committee resolved to grant planning permission for British Land’s masterplan, in line with their o […]
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Jenny van Breda wrote a new post, Election time – will change come? 4 days, 8 hours ago
e have had months and months of upset and unrest over Brexit; it finally looked like agreement might be reached but no – not yet.
So instead of agreement we will now have a General Election on December 1 […]
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Grant Leonard, The Negotiator wrote a new post, The Negotiator Awards 2019 – The Greatest Show! 4 days, 10 hours ago
London’s premier venue, The Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane in Mayfair, London, gave a very warm welcome to 900 guests on Friday evening for The Negotiator Awards 2019, presentation ceremony and gala d […]
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So the total fraud value represents just 0.00003% of the housing stock value and there is an “epidemic”…? Seriously. Go look at Amazon or Ebay’s figures and tell me where the epidemic is! They may be smaller amounts but the total dwarfs this story into insignificance where it belongs. (You’ve also ignored inflation which drops it even more).