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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Countrywide reveals cost cutting plan and admits IT systems are ‘aged’
Latest update on its three-year turnaround plan include reducing costs across the group by 10% and growing mortgage and conveyancing businesses.
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LSL London estate agency Marsh & Parsons opens ANOTHER branch
LSL’s upmarket London estate agency March & Parsons (M&P) is about to open yet another branch, The Negotiator can reveal, as the parent company completes its huge closure programme outside the capital. Hoardings have just gone up on M&P’s new high street site in the SW London suburb of Streatham, one of the capital’s fast-gentrifying enclaves, supported by a ‘zero commission’ opening gambit that will run until June. M&P is offering to sell or rent properties in Streatham ‘for free’ to help gain local awareness of its latest opening, a strategy it is also employing at its other new branch in Willesden Green. The company has been offering a sales and lettings service in Streatham via its Tooting branch for several years, but now feels confident enough to open on the high street, which at 1.8 miles is the longest in the UK and one of South London’s most cut-throat property markets. Food for thought The new M&P branch, which replaces an Asian supermarket, is next to a long-established KFH branch and a short walk from the offices of Winkworth, Foxtons, Jacksons, Andrews and Townends, although nearly 20 agents of all sizes operate in the area. M&P’s new team in…
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Leading estate agent makes bold claims for ‘open house’ day selling
Strutt & Parker says its event prompts earlier bids and converts tyre kickers into buyers.
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Hunters continues 2019 expansion
Hunters continues its expansion in the North of England with two new branches in Yorkshire and Lancashire.
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Jackson-Stops wins prestigious London contract
The Howard de Walden Estate has appointed national estate agent Jackson-Stops as one of its four retained letting agents.
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Symonds & Sampson: We’re Winners!
Chartered Surveyors, Symonds & Sampson, has been recognised as the leading firm of property auctioneers in the South West region for the 14th year running...
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Record year for Century 21 UK
Century 21 UK reported a record year as 16 new offices opened in the UK in the past 12-months – one of the fastest growing estate agency franchises in the UK.
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Jewel in the crown for Clive Emson
Clive Emson Land and Property Auctioneers vaulted into its 30th anniversary year with the sale of a historic former bank.
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Proptech disruptor Mashroom cuts out the letting agent
Landlords have a new way to get tenants – you pay the tenant to find their own replacement! But it cuts out the letting agent...
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Fergus Wilson, the controversial landlord says he is retiring
Few landlords would be so outspoken on the BBC’s Panorama programme
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