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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Former Rightmove exec launches bid to raise £75,000 for fledgling holiday homes firm
Shameem Golamy ran Rightmove's holiday homes operation for nearly seven years before moving to Norfolk and starting up an Airbbn management service for coastal cottage owners.
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Castles Residential Sales & Lettings bucks Brexit trends
Despite Brexit and the resulting downward business trends across some sectors, Swindon-based Castles Residential Sales & Lettings continues to thrive...
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Marsh & Parsons adds new role and branch as LSL cuts elsewhere
Estate agency giant LSL may be busy cutting roles and branches in one part of the business, but within its upmarket London brand Marsh & Parsons, it’s a different story. The 30-branch estate agency has promoted one of its associates, Callum Hodgson, to the new role of Areas Sales Director for North West London. Callum will look after his home branch of Queens Park as well as those in Tufnell Park, Little Venice and its new branch in Willesden Green opened late last week. Marsh & Parsons was untouched by the recent restructure of LSL’s other key estate agency brands Your Move and Reeds Rains and instead would appear to be busy expanding, not retrenching. Announced last month, the restructure of Your Move and Reeds Rains is already well under way and will eventually see 43 branch closures while 39 have already been transferred to an existing franchisee. “All of the training and development I’ve had at Marsh & Parsons over the last few years has undoubtedly helped me achieve my career goals, and I look forward managing a larger portfolio of people, clients and offices,” says Callum. The company’s sales director Alex Lyle, says Callum is “a driven and…
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Former estate agent ‘almost certain’ to face jail after admitting fraud
Recently-retired Roger Darnton worked in Guisborough for 32 years as an estate agent and is said to have misappropriated funds between over a five-year period.
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Outspoken SW agent Chris Wood closes his estate agency business
Wood cites a wide range of reasons for PDQ Estates ceasing trading including both a desire for 'less stress' in his life and a growing 3D film company.
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Familiar faces among Countrywide’s restructured management team
The 'new' team behind the company's 'back to basics' strategy is a familiar one at the top, its latest organogram reveals.
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Fees ban is already driving more independents out of industry, says Countrywide MD
Revelation is made during webcast Q&A session by Managing Director Paul Creffield following questions from investors about fees ban.
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Volatile day in City for Countrywide as boss admits Purplebricks is now dominant
But Executive Chairman Peter Long says business now run by 'experts' and disarray created by Platt years is being reversed.
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Losses mount at Countrywide but ‘back to basics’ is working, it claims
Profits have also halved at the troubled estate agency giant but its sales and lettings stock and pipeline is reviving, says Executive Chairman Peter Long.
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Letting agent fined £72,000 for shocking offences at three HMOs
Muhammad Siddique's fine follows an investigation supported by estate agency Open House, which he continued to claim he was a franchisee for despite being fired several years ago.
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