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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Major estate agency group being prepared for £100m sale
Fast-growing Lomond Group, which was formed in 2021 and has been buying up dozens of estate agencies ever since, is reported to be offered for sale by its City backers.
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£32,000 donated by Agents Giving to two charities
MIND and The Trussell Trust have been presented with funds raised by supporters of Agents Giving during 2023.
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LSL appoints new chief after sudden departure of predecessor
The parent company of Your Move and Reeds Rains has made fund management specialist Adrian Collins its new Chairman replacing David Barral.
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Big agency expands operations in SW including new branch
Winkworth franchisees Lisa and Simon Jacobs have created a new office after acquiring the Salisbury franchise.
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Covid has ‘hugely changed’ how people search for homes, admits agency boss
Comments are made by Welsh estate agency MD Catherine Caines following her decision to join the Relocation Agent Network, along with six others.
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Property industry rising star in Sunday Times power list
Hannah Chappatte, who runs Hybr and was interviewed in The Neg recently, is placed on the newspaper's Top 25 Young Power List for 2024.
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New agency aims to shake up traditional model
A newly-launched property company, Assurestate, says it is challenging the traditional estate agency model focusing on asset stabilisation, business lets and sales and block acquisition.
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Letting agency banned by big city council over HMO breaches
Trophy Homes was hit with the order relating to convictions from February 2023 when it pleaded guilty at Liverpool Magistrates Court to failing to apply for a HMO licence for the homes.
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Estate agency’s podcast courts controversy with ‘country code’ comments
Country Life editor tells Winkworth's Property Exchange that latte-sipping, Tesla driving urbanites need to behave differently when they buy a country home.
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LSL spends £7 million buying back stock off shareholders
Announcement is made as group reports profit 74% lower than the year before, but it was was still way ahead of analyst forecasts.
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