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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CLAIM: High St agents face double threat of rising costs and stiffer competition
Bricks-and-mortar estate agencies facing higher staff costs and increased competition from the growing number of ‘personal’ agents according to Property Experts founder Sean Newman.
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Estate agency offers ‘resi conversion opportunity’ with Banksy art attached
Hollis and Green in Bristol says the eventual winner of the auction will have to accept a restrictive covenant with the 250-lease regarding the artwork.
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Poll points to rapid expansion in number of self-employed agents
A poll of agents has revealed nearly a third believe that in five years 20% of the market will be comprised of self-employed agents.
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Letting agent’s new job to include managing £60,000-a-month rentals
Ziad Hijazi has joined boutique agency Beauchamp Estates from Savills to look after top-of-the-market rental properties in Central London of up to £15k per week.
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Ousted Tory MP’s office to become estate agency branch!
Ex-Conservative MP for Stroud Siobhan Baillie’s constituency office has been taken over by Murrays Sales and Lettings Agency.
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Well-known London estate agency sells surveying arm
17-branch Castles has sold its eponymous surveying business to competitor Novello Chartered Surveyors for an undisclosed sum.
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Agent duo sell ‘blood, sweat and tears’ lettings business to Lomond
Charles Aston and Richard Napier say now is the right time to sell after ten years spent growing Sugarhouse Properties.
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Senior Spicerhaart director leaves suddenly after just two years
Daniel Ansell was in charge of four of the firm's key brands but has now been expunged from its website after company statement released.
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FINALLY: a novel with an estate agent as its hero!
There are so many novels whose main characters are doctors, lawyers and police officers, but this one has a high street estate agent as its centre.
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Prime suspect in estate agent Suzy Lamplugh’s murder dies
John Cannan has died in prison of a ruptured aneurysm still denying he had anything to do with Suzy Lamplugh’s murder.
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