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Government pays £1 billion to release apartment leaseholders from cladding nightmare
Some 600,000 leaseholders within towers fitted with unsafe cladding will soon be able to sell their homes now that their freeholders can apply for government funding to complete the work.
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Home buyer activity surges to pre-Coronavirus levels, latest research shows
Zoopla says estate agents are enjoying extraordinary boom in housing market revival, but warns spike is likely to be temporary.
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Online AML registration system for upmarket letting agents finally goes live
Agents renting properties for more than £8,400 a month have until January next year to register their businesses for AML and comply with the regulations.
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Furlough system ‘must be reformed’ to help estate agents survive market restart
The Home Buying & Selling Group says Chancellor must remove three-week furlough rule to enable staff to be moved into and out of system on a weekly basis.
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Foxtons to open branches and bring back furloughed staff by next Monday
Estate agency also reveals that toll on revenues has been less apocalyptic than many expected, dropping by 44% during the crisis.
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Will the footfall return? High streets to re-open on 15th June
Estate agents will hopefully not have to work alone any more on deserted high streets after Boris Johnson last night revealed all retail shops could reopen in two weeks.
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Watch out for money laundering surge during Coronavirus, RICS warns estate agents
Institution says the financial chaos and business uncertainty created by the pandemic will lead to more attempts to circumvent AML and other rules.
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Hunters’ Chairman comes out fighting for Dominic Cummings
MP for Thirsk and Malton says Cumming's explanation of his rule breaking was 'fair' and urged those on Twitter to 'move on'.
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Campaign group to guide members on how to thrive without Rightmove
The Say No To Rightmove campaign has enlisted the help of leading industry trainer and consultant Iain White for the event on 3rd June.
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‘There will not be a housing crash’, predicts industry figure
Former eMoov founder and now Keller Williams franchisee Russell Quirk says housing market is fundamentally sounds and will weather the Coronavirus storm.
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