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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Online service launches ‘goodbye to letting agents’ poster campaign
An online service for landlords has launched a London Underground advertising campaign that urges landlords to say 'goodbye to lettings agents'.
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Auction success for Hunters
Hunters held a successful property auction at York Sport Club in April. The sale was well attended and seven of the nine lots were sold in the room...
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Former MD of troubled estate agency Humberts joins presidential team of NAEA
The NAEA and ARLA have both ushered in their new presidential teams following the Propertymark annual general meeting and dinner at London’s Savoy hotel on Friday, including the appointment of Ian Westerling (pictured, right) as Vice President of NAEA. Ian recently stepped down as Managing Director of Humberts after the ailing firm was sold to a travel company, and now holds a ‘special projects’ role at the company. He is joined by Mark Bentley (pictured, left) of Birmingham agency Paul Carr who replaces outgoing President Katie Griffin, and Lauren Scott of Whitley Bay firm Trading Places (pictured, below) who is now President Elect. As well as looking forward to meeting the fellow member agents, Mark says he also wants to work “with the Propertymark board in encouraging the government to move forward with their indicated intention to look to regulate the sector and to find a way to speed up the house buying and selling process”. ARLA ARLA’s new team at the top is Peter Savage (pictured, left), who is now the organisation’s president, replacing Sally Lawson. Peter has been ARLA president before during 2015/16 and is chairman of Oxfordshire lettings agency Simplify Housing, the website for which was…
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Glut of properties for sale building up in London and South, says Rightmove
Rightmove reckons homes are taking longer to sell in London and the South while the north and Wales remain active.
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Purplebricks USA gambles on expansion into Las Vegas and Phoenix
Hybrid agency Purplebricks USA has set up shop in two more cities within America including Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas.
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Auction House reports best April in it’s history!
Auction House is reporting the highest number of April sales in the group’s 11 year history.
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Winkworth franchising grows
Winkworth’s two new offices in Banstead, Surrey and Poringland, Norfolk, are now open for business.
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Over 60% of tenants offered insurance-based rental deposits take it up
Over sixty percent of tenants offered an insurance rather than cash-based rental deposit scheme at one of London’s largest new-build rental apartment developments have chosen to do so, it has been claimed. Criterion Capital, one of the UK’s largest Built-to-Rent operators and a major client of letting agent the Acorn Group, has made the claim for the first phase of its Delta Point scheme in Croydon, which eventually will bring 404 rental units to the market. The service is being provided by Zero Deposit, the Stevenage-based proptech firm co-founded by Jon Notley. “There is no question that Zero Deposit is helping to make our properties more attractive to potential tenants, speeding up the process and resulting in happier tenants when they move in,” says Karl Elliott, Head of Portfolio at Criterion Capital. Rental deposit Acorn Group, which includes four agent brands – Langford Russell, John Payne, Unique and Acorn – is one of South East London’s larger agency groups and has a total of 31 offices. All of these have now rolled out the Zero Deposit product. The agency was one of the four industry big hitters to give Zero Deposit its backing in February alongside Connells, LSL and Knight Frank.…
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