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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New lettings platform bags two leading property industry players
Accommodation.co.uk has recently opened its new HQ in Manchester and is fast gaining new recruits from both traditional agencies and Purplebricks.
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Rising digital-savvy estate agency star acquires traditional rival
My Property Box has acquired Darlington-based Sandersons Lettings just months after buying another local rival.
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Bob Scarff: ‘How I’d fix Countrywide, and why it’s in trouble’
Former senior Countrywide director bares all during video interview with Chris Watkins released exclusively to The Negotiator.
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Great grandson of Jackson-Stops founder reveals why he won’t work for family firm
George Jackson-Stops worked for Winkworth, Cluttons and Strutt & Parker prior to setting up his own company, buying agent GJS Property.
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Filming to begin on crime thriller based on true story of London estate agent
Former sales agent David Perlmutter's international best selling novel Wrong Place, Wrong Time is to be made into a movie filmed in the UK and Spain.
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Three new partners at property consultancy
Salisbury-based property consultancy Myddelton & Major has appointed three new partners.
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Friends set up estate agency after redundancy
Two friends who both took redundancy after decades with the same insurance company are now homing in on a new business.
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Savills expands its prime core London business
Savills has expanded its prime core London residential business with specialised teams now in place in each of its 40 offices.
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Purplebricks faces shareholder revolt on Thursday during AGM
City advisory firm says firm's bonus scheme for its directors is too generous and should be voted down at the AGM this week.
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We’re ‘getting ready to change our pricing model’ says Purplebricks CEO
Purplebricks CEO Vic Darvey has confirmed on Sky news this lunchtime that the hybrid estate agency intends to change its pricing model and is preparing to test out several options with customers to see what ‘consumers think’. The company currently offers a £899 service excluding viewings which costs £1,399 in London payable either up-front or on completion. Brought on to the programme to talk about stamp duty and the damage it is doing to some parts of the property market, Darvey was also quizzed about his plans for the business, which he joined in May. Darvey said Purplebricks has gone ‘from nothing’ in a few years to being the largest estate agency in the UK and that he now wanted to pause its development and look at what needs doing next, and restated the agency’s oft-repeated claim that it will soon hold a 10% share of the house sales market. “We’re looking at evolving the pricing and will be in market with a series of tests and customers will tell us whether we’ve got that right or wrong,” he said. Stamp duty Darvey revealed research during the programme that only one in four homeowners believe Boris Johnson will follow-up on…
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