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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Senior Haart branch manager reveals moment he was told of redundancy as he drove down motorway
Experienced and senior member of staff says he doesn't want sympathy but is keen to highlight how he believes Haart was 'inhumane' when his boss told him about losing his job via 'script'.
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Lock-down will make agents ‘reassess home working and self-employment’
Government decision last night to lock-down Britain will change both how people are employed and their attitudes to branch working, it is claimed.
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Lock-down: property industry says it has the solutions to help ease the crisis
RICS urges government to work with industry to offer solutions to ease the housing and business crisis following last night's lock-down announcement.
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Spicerhaart boss reveals why 300 jobs have been cut despite government help
CEO Paul Smith says his hands were tied by the vague nature of the government's plans so far and the rapid way Coronavirus has affected the sales market in particular.
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Spicerhaart savaged after it lays off hundreds of staff ‘via conference call’
Decision to close branches minutes before government revealed job protection package baffles staff, many of whom have turned to social media to complain.
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Chancellor reveals government will pay staff to ‘take leave’ instead of being made redundant, and suspends VAT payments
Measures are part of package announced this evening by Rishi Sunak and designed to prevent large-scale lay-offs and business failures.
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‘This is why Rightmove and Zoopla need to get serious about helping agents’
A long-established West London agent tells The Negotiator the difficult choices facing his business as the Coronavirus bites.
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Rightmove lobbying group swells to over 250 estate agencies
The group has risen from 70 agents yesterday to more than 250 today, all of whom put their name to a letter sent to the portal making a case for more help.
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Breaking: OnTheMarket drops its fees by a third with no strings
The portal, which recently ejected its CEO, says it wants to support agents with lower portal costs 'as early as possible' during the crisis.
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New agent group takes on Rightmove over its ‘derisory’ Coronavirus offer
Over 80 agents representing in excess of 120 branches so far have jointly written to the portal to ask for more help than its deferred payments scheme.
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