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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Connells now offers £104m for Countrywide against ‘flaky’ Alchemy rival deal
Connells chief says it will now pay shareholders £3.25 a share, an increase of 30% on its original £2.50 deal.
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Meet the estate agents hoping to be the industry’s next TV property experts
Twins Tonya and Rea from Essex tell The Negotiator they want to be a younger and more relatable version of TV's Phil and Kirstie.
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LATEST: Connells’ Countrywide bid ‘would see job losses, branch closures’
Investment firm is scathing of the Connells takeover bid and says its offer will satisfy all shareholders.
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BREAKING: Martin & Co parent firm TPFG in talks to buy rival Hunters
Franchising giant TPFG looks to land major coup and hoover up rival, but will competition regulators step in?
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Yopa promotes finance chief to MD but remains long way off profitability
Hybrid agency has promoted Freddie Cornes to run the business day-to-day, 16 months after former Countrywide chief Grenville Turner was made Chairman
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Independent estate agency lands huge national home sales contract
Estate agency Dacre, Son & Hartley is to sell properties for largest retirement home charity and set up national network of appointed agents.
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Extend stamp duty or risk ‘own goal’, leading industry CEO tells Chancellor
Peter Kavanagh of Leaders Romans Group says not extending or transitioning the end of holiday will disappoint 10,000s buyers.
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Belvoir adds its 313 sales and lettings branches to Boomin
Estate agency group has also announced that it will pay back staff whose salaries were cut during the lockdown months.
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Are you the next Phil or Kirstie? TV show looking for camera-ready agents
Purple Production wants willing property people with rural beats who fancy a shot at being a TV presenter.
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BREAKING: Countrywide rejects Connells offer and recommends new City deal
Struggling behemoth tells shareholders Alchemy deal is the best on the table after rejecting competitor out of hand.
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