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Lomond Capital continues its acquisition trail
Lomond Capital has announced two further agency acquisitions, in Manchester and Brighton.
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It’s grin up North
Buy-to-let’s a better bet in the North, says Joanne Christie and savvy agents are working hard to attract the investors.
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How to sell your business for a better price?
Running your own business can be exciting, fulfilling and profitable, but there comes a time when selling up is the best way forward. Sheila Manchester asked the experts.
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What’s behind the government’s attack on buy-to-let?
Does the Government really hate buy-to-let landlords? Andrea Kirkby investigates the changing focus on housing tenure.
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Naming and shaming
All agents must, by law, register with one of the three approved property redress schemes – and the system has just been strengthened, so read on.
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Can a property photo say more than a 1,000 words?
Property photo and floorplan enhancing software PropertyBOX is inviting 200 agents to trial its updated product which, it claims, increases clicks on Rightmove by 20%. Developer KeyAGENT says its enhanced property photo enhancing suite now has a better look and feel including a new user interface and that this 2.0 version can be trialled for free with unlimited for free by agents quick enough off the block. Last year the company launched the product and invited 100 agents to trial it including Thorney Groves, a nine-branch agency operating across North, South and Central Manchester, and eight-branch agency Fenn Wright operating in towns all along the A12 in Essex and Suffolk. “You could technically operate a business without email, but why would you? Using PropertyBOX is kind of like that. It’s an obvious choice for us.” says Matt Smith, Residential Sales and Lettings Director at Thornley Groves (pictured, left). James Gunther (pictured, right), a director at Fenn Wright, says: “PropertyBOX has been a big time-saving measure for the whole team. It’s been a really helpful tool for marketing properties to a higher standard.” Agents wanting to sign up to be one of the first 200 agents to try the new version…
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Lomond Capital on the acquisition trail
Sheila Manchester speaks to Stuart Pender, Chief Executive, Lomond Capital.
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CIELA launch unlikely now as agents stay away
The Charter for Independent Estate and Letting Agents (CIELA) says it is unlikely to launch on October 1st as planned. The announcement comes after just 5% of agents who pre-registered with the organisation signed up to pay its pre-launch £35 a month memberships fee. CIELA, which revealed its plans begin a new mutual body for independent agents in January this year, says it has yet to attract enough paying members to be able to launch. “While we have received very strong vocal support, thousands of agents visiting our website and much encouragement from agents and suppliers we meet, this is not translating into membership sign-ups,” says CIELA founder Charles Wright. “Less than 5% of the hundreds of agents who pre-registered with us declaring their support when we first announced our intention to form have actually proceeded to join.” “It seems to be a case of chicken and egg. Everyone agrees the independent industry needs a collective voice to improve its national reputation, but hardly anyone seems willing to risk even £35 a month to support it. “The wait-and-see problem will cause CIELA to die before launch, unless it’s overcome. Everyone is waiting for everyone else to join first. Or, there…
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Guild and online agent easyProperty merge in £60m deal
The Guild of Property Professionals has struck a £60m deal with online agent easyProperty.com to enable its 5,000 members to use the website’s online sales and lettings packages. The deal, which will complete later this month, also merges the Guild’s parent company GPEA, which also owns 300-branch network Fine & Country, with easyProperty, to be called e-Prop Services. The new company will be headed up by GPEA executive director Jon Cooke(pictured, below) who will also be CEO of e-Prop, while easyProperty founder Rob Elice (pictured, left) will remain with easyProperty. He says the Guild and Fine & Country members will be able to target a wider range of sellers and in particular those at the lower end of the market, who are largely the price-sensitive bread and butter of the online agents. “This deal allows our independent agents to offer more consumer choice with sales and lettings products catering to both the do-it-yourself and the do-it-for-me vendor and landlord preferences. “We recognise the market requires and demands both online products and traditional methods. What I’d like to stress is this newly merged business is the convergence of traditional estate agency and online. “Effectively we are providing independent agents the ability…
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Traditional marketing – old school rules
The traditional ways to promote your business are as powerful as they ever were, says Sheila Manchester.
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