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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KFH reveals last year was its ‘annus horribilis’ for property sales
Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward says transaction levels dropped last year within London from already historic lows.
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Major regional estate agency joins Hunters franchise family
The Cumberland estate agency was formerly owned by its eponymous parent building society but has now been sold to its management and is to be a hub-based business.
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Plymouth estate agency swaps property pics for protest placards
All change in Plymouth suburb as family-run sales and lettings agency defies convention and signs up to save the planet.
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Rigid office hours and branches are NOT the future of estate agency
Two high street agents who last year started up a hybrid agency have also claimed that vendors and landlords' busy lives mean the traditional approach is obsolete.
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Every little helps! Countrywide hires new COO from Tesco
Bruce Marsh was until last week part of the team that helped Tesco boss Dave Lewis turn the once ailing retailer around.
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Easyproperty parent company hires Rightmove high flier
Dawn Griffin had been a key account manager at Rightmove before joining the outsourced services supplier Evolve Partnership, which in July bought Easyproperty.com
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Tenant fees ban has had no effect claims SpareRoom
Company says rents for the 300,000 properties advertised on its site have barely increased since the fees ban was introduced.
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Estate agency branch closures become more obvious on the high street
Long-established estate agency brands are disappearing or merging as Brexit and other factors put businesses under pressure, but it's not all bad news.
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‘If poor mental health can happen to me then it can happen to anyone’, says leading industry figure
Senior industry figure reveals both his struggle to cope when it 'all got too much' and how it shaped his people skills, ahead of World Mental Health Day this Saturday.
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Is Accommodation the next Purplebricks… for lettings?
The platform's newly-arrived recruitment chief Michael Booth tells The Negotiator why he thinks it could clean up where others have failed. But is he right?
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