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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MAD market: Buyers camp overnight outside estate agency to bag homes
Purchasers keen to bag homes at development in Wales wait all night to wait for Bidmead Cook to open its doors.
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BREAKING: LSL and leading City investment firm to build £200m mortgage giant
Your Move parent company says it has identified over 50 large brokers it wants to buy up and add to the agency's PRIMIS network.
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Foxtons forced into humiliating U-turn over bonuses following revolt
Board has promised to revisit bonus packages after shareholders, representing 40% of votes, moved against remuneration report and Chairman.
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Stop trying to dodge your tax, estate agency founder tells other firms
Comments are made during debate on Finance Bill working its way through Parliament that will clamp down on tax 'avoidance' schemes and their promoters.
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Chancellors is latest big estate agency to list with challenger portal
OneDome says it is gaining traction as more multi-branch estate agency firms sign up to its portal platform – including also Strutt & Parker.
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Glamorous estate agent avoids jail after bloody nightclub attack
23-year-old Sascha Butlin, who is an heiress to the Butlins holiday camp fortune, is to do community service and pay compensation to her victims.
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Lettings industry consolidation continues with Martin & Co acquisition
Branch of national chain in Dorset buys rival and its 230-unit property management portfolio.
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Purplebricks in Welsh hot water over ‘British’ For Sale boards
Welsh nationalists slam the estate agency after it erected Union Jack and lion-dominated board, supporting Olympic Team GB.
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Agent defends controversial support for housing development
Leading Swindon agent Richard James dismisses criticism that his staff and mortgage brokers wrote to planners in support of 350-home development.
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Catalist buys 2% stake in Foxtons as it urges action to turn agency around
Robin Paterson's 'activist investor' vehicle wants the estate agency's management to change direction and go for growth.
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