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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York property agency launches city centre division
Croft Residential has launched a new division focused on the York city centre market.
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Northwood completes on latest acquisition
Northwood franchisees have completed four more acquisitions, taking the total this year to eight, with more in the pipeline.
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Industry first: lettings agency fined twice in same week for property management offences
Century 21 Cameron Adams and its director Hasan Younis ordered to pay a total of £44,000 in fines and costs handed down relating to different cases.
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Alexander & Co acquires Ella Homes
Alexander & Co property services group has acquired Buckinghamshire estate agent Ella Homes.
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Michael Jones acquires Easylet
Michael Jones & Company, has announced that it has acquired another independent letting agency.
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Hunters now claims to be the UK’s third largest estate agency by properties sold
Claim is made by the chain within its 2019 full-year results in which the company also reveals that it will soon unveil a huge investment in productivity and CRM tech.
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Another big corporate claims to have ‘beaten the tenant fees ban’
Belvoir is the third large estate agency chain to claim the expected 10% drop in lettings revenues following the ban did not materialise last year.
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Investors in fund behind Purplebricks to get as little as 46p in the £1 back
Initial payments to battered investors by company winding up the fund will leave hundreds of thousands of people and many high profile institutions out of pocket.
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Are your company emails safe? London agency’s clients scammed after ‘security breach’
Young couple lose their rental deposit and rent for their dream flat after being duped by fraudsters, although they and agency dispute who is to blame.
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Story of estate agent jailed for fraud to feature in TV crime series
Roger Darnton recently pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud after stealing £100,000 from people in his home town of Guisborough where he ran an agency.
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