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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Watch out Savills! Fine & Country launches bid to be No.1 in upmarket sales
New MD Nicky Stevenson says new territory licensing structure is already enabling holders to exploit new areas.
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Hybrid estate agents survived the lockdown better, claims Yopa boss
Grenville Turner says the business models of companies like his were overall more prepared to meet the challenges of surviving the pandemic.
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Yopa claims second place in the hybrid race but profits remain elusive
Chairman Grenville Turner says profitability is not far away and that progress on costs, growth, listings and market share has been quicker under his leadership.
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‘Brilliant’ estate agency boss and TV pundit losses battle against cancer
Chris Stops had run his well-known agency in Newcastle-under-Lyme for 30 years when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer after falling ill at the beginning of lockdown.
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Fugitive Cambridgeshire estate agent arrested in Portsmouth
Paul Kerbey disappeared seven years ago owing thousands to clients but has now been arrested and charged with conspiring to import cannabis worth £500,000.
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Hybrid estate agency with national ambitions launches in Brighton
Former short-lets agent says he believes there is a gap in the market for an online estate agency with 'truly local' representatives who know their neighbours intimately.
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Yopa reveals plans to help vendors prepare for Covid ‘second wave’
Plans are outlined in latest results for the company including the claim that it's now firmly the UK's No.2 hybrid estate agency.
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Expecting things to get litigious? Purplebricks signs up law firm
Shakespeare Martineau says it will be helping the hybrid estate agency in all areas of its operation from HMO tenancy contracts to claims by unhappy customers.
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New report: Rightmove is the most vulnerable it has been for years
Document released today by a campaigning group shines a light on the extraordinary situation most agents face when paying for Rightmove, and how the balanace of power should be levelled.
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Need business mentoring? Then Kenny Bruce could be on the line
The Bruce brother is one of the first four business mentors being offered up to agents who need some advice on how to run their agencies by Agents Together.
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