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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‘If poor mental health can happen to me then it can happen to anyone’, says leading industry figure
Senior industry figure reveals both his struggle to cope when it 'all got too much' and how it shaped his people skills, ahead of World Mental Health Day this Saturday.
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Is Accommodation the next Purplebricks… for lettings?
The platform's newly-arrived recruitment chief Michael Booth tells The Negotiator why he thinks it could clean up where others have failed. But is he right?
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New lettings platform bags two leading property industry players
Accommodation.co.uk has recently opened its new HQ in Manchester and is fast gaining new recruits from both traditional agencies and Purplebricks.
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Rising digital-savvy estate agency star acquires traditional rival
My Property Box has acquired Darlington-based Sandersons Lettings just months after buying another local rival.
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Bob Scarff: ‘How I’d fix Countrywide, and why it’s in trouble’
Former senior Countrywide director bares all during video interview with Chris Watkins released exclusively to The Negotiator.
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Great grandson of Jackson-Stops founder reveals why he won’t work for family firm
George Jackson-Stops worked for Winkworth, Cluttons and Strutt & Parker prior to setting up his own company, buying agent GJS Property.
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Filming to begin on crime thriller based on true story of London estate agent
Former sales agent David Perlmutter's international best selling novel Wrong Place, Wrong Time is to be made into a movie filmed in the UK and Spain.
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Three new partners at property consultancy
Salisbury-based property consultancy Myddelton & Major has appointed three new partners.
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Friends set up estate agency after redundancy
Two friends who both took redundancy after decades with the same insurance company are now homing in on a new business.
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Savills expands its prime core London business
Savills has expanded its prime core London residential business with specialised teams now in place in each of its 40 offices.
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