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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Countrywide begins search for new CEO, reports Sky News
Exec chairman Peter Long will soon make way for a CEO once head hunters have secured a suitable candidate, it has been reported.
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Housesimple rebrands as ‘Strike’ as it goes mobile and expands free model
CEO Sam Mitchell says new name and direction is part of its plans to become a 'northern powerhouse' of hybrid estate agency.
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Follow Rollo? Why the UK will soon turn to the US brokerage model
Rollo Miles of Agent & Homes says technology is destroying brand loyalty so the only point of differentiation will soon by the individual agents.
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Keller Williams opens 11th market centre in the UK
London-based CEO Ben Taylor says the estate agency now has over 250 agents in the UK and is one of the top performing countries with the Keller Williams global network.
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Hybrid estate agency wins significant new funding from investors
Agent & Homes raise the new cash in just four days despite investors' jitters over the economic effect of the Covid pandemic on the UK housing market.
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Open verdict recorded after inquest into estate agent’s drowning
The body of Buckinghamshire agent Harpreet Gill was found in the River Jubilee near Taplow on March 18th March.
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Nearly 90% of estate agency branches have now re-opened, says high street survey
The Local Data Company looked at 20,351 high street units of all business types eligible to re-open and found on average that just over 52% had re-opened.
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Estate agency is one of key ‘green shoots’ jobs growth industries
Reed, one of the largest employment agencies in the UK, says it saw a 43% increase in estate agency jobs advertised on its website.
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Lettings agents significantly better paid than sales counterparts, survey reveals
Pay for lettings agents is better in both mid and upper pay bands within the industry, says recruitment firm Rayner Personnel.
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£35 million cash boost for Purplebricks as its sells Canadian business
Hybrid agency says disposal is part of its renewed focus on its core UK market but the cash will be useful after the additional costs of surviving the lockdown.
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