Agencies & People
News covering the businesses, activities, people and personalities in estate agency and letting agency and wider residential property industry.
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‘Agency-in-box model’ pops up from failed online agency
The company which acquired failed online business Sellmyhome.co.uk has reinvented the business as a low-cost franchise.
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Winkworth pandemic shareholder boost
Winkworth's shareholders are benefiting from the pandemic housing boom, with a special dividend payout, reflecting the company's strong performance in 2021.
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Century 21 UK named as UK’s best property and estate agency franchise
Century 21 UK has been ranked at number 18 in the 2021 franchise industry league table, jumping 33 places from 2020 and the top property company.
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Property firm rebrands after ‘exhausting’ long months of Covid
Leading northern property sales and lettings firm ERE Property says used the pandemic as an opportunity to modernise its image.
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Savills suspends Manchester employee following N-word comments on Twitter
Account belonging to one of the firm's commercial buildings managers included racist comments about three England football team players.
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Yopa poaches senior figures from Spicerhaart and Purplebricks
Simon Elliott and Isaac Bull are joining as the hybrid estate agency's new regional directors for East Anglia and the South of England.
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Online agency Strike bags £11m more in funding for its national roll-out
Group of existing and new investors - including Channel 4 Ventures - have voted with their wallets in the agency's future.
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Purplebricks’ Euros final PR stunt misses goal
Signboard erected in streets around Wembley stadium before the match predicted 'it's coming home' for English football.
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Independent London estate agency launches training academy
Firm Benjamin Stevens says students will get on the job training as well as classroom instruction for sales and letting agents.
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Mum and son duo are latest EasyProperty franchisees
Sharon Coleman and son Kieron are establishing the hybrid brand in the Thames valley between Reading and Newbury.
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