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Latest property news
EXCLUSIVE: Entrepreneur plans agent-owned portal to tackle likes of Rightmove
Find Properties will encourage agents to differentiate themselves by improving their own web presence which will also improve standards and competition.
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The Negotiator Conference review
The UK's premier annual event for residential estate and letting agents. As well as featuring over 50 key supplier companies, it is a networking and educational event for the UK residential property industry
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Agencies & People
Purplebricks: the rise and fall of the great disrupter
Simon Cairnes looks back to where it all started for one of the first ever online estate agents, Purplebricks, and its tumultuous journey over the last decade.
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Regulation & Law
Letting agents’ client accounts ‘being targeted by banks’ worried about AML risks
Many agents are falling foul of 'stringent' policies and unable to open or keep accounts with banks worried about money laundering risks, it is claimed.
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Regulation & Law
Leading Tory ‘reluctantly’ slams own party’s renting reforms
Lord Frost, who is a high profile 'true blue' Tory and Brexiteer, says measures within Bill will make the rental market 'worse not better' and is 'un-Conservative'.
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Regulation & Law
RoPA has no hope of becoming law as another minister rules it out
Lee Rowley tells a Lords committee there was no scope in current legislation to introduce measures from RoPA committee.
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Housing Market
SNAPSHOT: Have London’s prime sales and lettings markets recovered?
Sales transactions remain subdued when measured only by exchanges but under offer numbers are improving - but lettings are still not back to pre-pandemic levels, says LonRes.
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Agencies & People
Estate agency gives staff unlimited paid annual leave
The annual leave entitlement is 28 days paid leave a year for those who work a five-day week but eXp UK boss Adam Day wants a happier company culture.
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Rental market
Soaring service charges ‘behind rise in Right To Manage applications’
As well as higher living costs many flat owners including landlords have seen management charges rise by 10% a year – with one in 14 reporting increases of 21% or more.
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Regulation & Law
Estate agency couple disqualified for 12 years over dodgy Covid loan
David and Jennifer Elderkin from Cornwall ran a failed estate agency in Fowey and in 2020 overstated their turnover to gain a £50,000 Bounce Back Loan.
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Regulation & Law
Tribunal says Foxtons’ cleaning fee was prohibited payment
Tenant reveals he was told to pay a cleaning fee before he could 'check out' which has been judged to be a prohibited payment, but agency is now 'considering the matter'.
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Agencies & People
Walkies! Agency moves to bigger branch with mascot in tow
The Stoke-on-Trent branch of Nicholas Humphreys has moved into a larger office in the heart of Hanley's city centre.
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