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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Estate agency sells apartment via property raffle on Rightmove
Inspire Sales & Lettings has taken the unusual step, offering 50,000 tickets at £5 each to win the property, which is listed a 'new instruction'.
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Small independent agents won out against corporates during 2020 sales boom
Research by TwentyCI shows big corporates lost share of sales and instructions to one-branch competitors last year.
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4% of estate agency branches have closed since July, claims BestAgent
Founder Charlie Lamdin says Brexit, political instability and also the long months of the first lockdown have taken their toll.
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Estate agency lands huge 3,000-property build-to-rent deal
KFH is look after the billion-pound portfolio on behalf of a joint venture between EQT Real Estate and Sigma Capital Group.
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Hunters senior team to enjoy £9.5 million pay day after TPFG acquisition
Five members of its board, along with former Saracens chairman Nigel Wray, are to share the cash pay-out once purchase goes ahead.
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A new stage in their careers – mother and daughter’s heart-warming Covid story
Former theatre worker and her unemployed graduate daughter have opened their own lettings agency in Wales.
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Why are councils against new agency branches opening – even during Covid?
Council in Scotland refuses application for change from retail to office in town south of Glasgow saying 'too many agents already'.
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Belvoir pays back government Covid support worth £260,000
CEO says good 2020 enables firm to return govt cash, top-up staff who took pay cuts and give shareholders catch-up dividends.
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BREAKING: Martin & Co parent group to buy Hunters for £24 million
TPFG has made the offer, which it says shareholders back, after nearly two months of negotiations.
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Lomond takes latest step towards being next big national chain
Investment firm snaps up four more agencies in Manchester, Brighton and Edinburgh giving it 23,000 properties under management across UK.
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