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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Winkworth brushes aside sale rumours as City highflyers join board
Winkworth boss Dominic Agace has denied rumours that Winkworth has already been approached about a sale given recent mergers and acquisitions in the sector.
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Too much of a drag? Agents smoke more than any other profession
New research shows that more than half of estate agents admit they need a cigarette to relieve stress after a hard day at work.
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Estate agent leader warns industry over image copyright ‘fines’
Simon Shinerock says companies that demand fines totalling thousands of pounds from agents who mistakenly use images without copyright sign-off are on the rise.
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Jailed kidnapper of estate agent ‘confident of prison release’
Michael Sams was given life sentences after he was convicted of kidnapping Stephanie Slater for eight days and also for the murder of a Leeds woman.
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Lomond bolsters student lettings footprint with 54th acquisition as buying spree continues
Lomond boss Ed Phillips says the acquisition of HOP Lettings will add an additional 861 residential properties to the firm's lettings book - around 300 of which are student properties.
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Your Move launches major recruitment campaign to ramp up business
Your Move’s ‘Join the Movement’ campaign has been designed to attract new franchise owners after parent LSL Property Services announced ambitious growth plans.
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Plymouth estate agents top national list with 25 monthly sales average
Latest internal data from GetAgent.co.uk reveals that over the last six months a total of 226,120 homes have been listed for sale across 30 major cities by 15,046 agents, averaging 15 properties each.
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High-profile lettings agency duo celebrate 20-year milestone
Base Property Specialists, founded in 2004 by An Deckers and Kristjan Byfield has scooped over 30 industry awards in the past two decades.
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High profile agent’s TV show panned as ‘most hateable ever’
In the new Netflix show, property mogul Daniel Daggers and his team of agents at DDRE Global set out to conquer the London super prime real estate sector.
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ITV backs Purplebricks with £4.5 million ‘equity for ads’ deal
TV giant says it believes Purplebricks and its parent firm Strike continue to 'disrupt the estate agency market' and has inked a deal which will see a barage of adverts kicking off this summer.
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