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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We’re back! Liverpool estate agency re-launches lettings after £3.5m Purplebricks deal
After selling its lettings operation to the hybrid agency in 2017, The Venmore Group is now free to re-establish its property management division.
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‘We looked after our staff during Covid’, says Connells’ CEO
Generosity is revealed within the company's interior half-year results, which also show profits nosediving following housing market shutdown.
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Leaders makes another push into ‘virtual branches’ with northern cold start
Leaders parent company LRG says the latest Sheffield virtual opening follows its initial dip into the hybrid agency model in Lincoln earlier this month.
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Brothers sentenced over firearm attack on estate agency
Joshua and Brandon Maas both discharged a 'lethal' weapon at the branch of Gateshead agency Carousel, and also later damaged one of its cars.
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Online lettings agency wins extra £4m from taxpayer-backed fund and VCs
Mashroom has received funds from private investors but also Rishi Sunak's £250 million 'Future Fund' designed to help Covid-hit 'pre-revenue' start-ups.
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Hybrid lettings firm raises £2.29 million from investors and government Covid fund
Nearly 580 investors including HM Treasury's Covid Future Fund have invested in the company, which claims to now have 7,000 properties on its books.
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‘Say No To Rightmove campaigner: ‘We’re changing the way portals treat agents’
Dreamview Estates MD and 'Say No To Rightmove' activist Murray Lee says the industry campaign to change the way portals operate is working.
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Ready to Strike! Estate agency says national ‘free to sell’ service already live
Formerly Housesimple, Strike says although its supported free offering is only available in the North, the agents is already piloting a 'virtual' version elsewhere.
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‘Nine-to-five is gone in estate agency’ says Haart – but was it ever like that?
Claim is made by young new recruit to Haart's recently-launched Partner programme with previous at Countrywide and Purplebricks.
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Knight Frank reports sales boom for July as registrations, instructions and offers jump
Leading prime estate agency reveals extraordinary recovery in its key London market in both central and outer areas.
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