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Chancellors is latest big estate agency to list with challenger portal
OneDome says it is gaining traction as more multi-branch estate agency firms sign up to its portal platform – including also Strutt & Parker.
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Awks! Estate agency staff filmed by vendor being rude about house
Leading Kent agency Wards says the pair are deeply embarrassed by their behaviour after Ringo security recorded their derogatory comments.
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High profile agencies join OneDome, the challenger portal
Some high-profile names have joined challenger portal, OneDome's sites, OneDome.com and Nethouseprices.com.
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Challenger portal signs up agents behind Say No To Rightmove campaign
Murray Lee and Paul Davies are leading by example and have recently signed up to use the challenger portal as they urge other agents to look at Rightmove alternatives.
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Reuben brothers top list of growing wealth for property tycoons
Property and business moguls David and Simon Reuben have come second in this year’s Sunday Times Rich List with a combined personal wealth of £18.66 billion, up from fourth place last year. The siblings arrived in the UK from India during the 1950s and after making several fortunes in steel and other business areas more recently moved into property and now own more than £1 billion of London residential and commercial bricks and mortar. The Reubens are not the only property-related individuals to have coined it in recently. Others with growing fortunes include Paul Rooney, whose wealth increased by £6 million last year to £146 million. Rooney is the owner of South East estate agency chain Arun Estates and made it into the Rich List for the first time in 2015. Building wealth Others include the David Wilson family, who own the eponymous house builder. Their wealth increased by £12 million last year placing them at 225 on the list. Other home building dynasties to have prospered include Berkeley Homes founder Tony Pidgely whose fortune increased by £25 million to £335 million. The McCarthy family who established retirement giant McCarthy & Stone and now run Churchills, saw their wealth increase…
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Arun Estates’ Kent subsidiary rebrands
The agency formerly known as Ward & Partners - part of the Arun Estates Group and Kent’s largest independent agent - has a comprehensive new rebrand.
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Dominic’s circular career
Arun Estates has promoted Dominic Butler to Operations Director in charge of the Brighton and East Sussex division of its Cubitt & West subsidiary.
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Arun Estates signs with OnTheMarket ahead of AIM flotation
OnTheMarket (OTM) has signed its first NEW significant agency group following its decision in August to float on the London Stock Exchange AIM market and demutualise. Arun Estates, which encompasses four agent brands and over 100 branches across the South East of England, has signed a five-year listing with the portal. Under the agreement, Arun Estates will advertise all its UK residential sales and letting properties on OnTheMarket.com, and has committed to “actively promote” the portal in its branches. Arun Estates’ best-known grand, Ward & Partners, already lists with both Rightmove and the ZPG portals. “It is a powerful boost to OnTheMarket that Arun Estates is committing to list its properties for five years at OnTheMarket.com,” says OTM Chief Executive Ian Springett (pictured, left) “Arun Estates is undoubtedly one of the leading, most successful agent groups in the regions where it operates and its support will substantially strengthen our position in the market.” Arun Estates, which includes Ward & Partners, Cubitt & West, Douglass Allen and Pittis (on the Isle of Wight), was born out of the sale by Prudential Insurance of its national estate agency business during the early 1980s. Arun Estates has also been busy on other fronts…
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Salaries up by 20% across Arun Estates group
Arun Estates raises the bar for employment conditions and packages in a bid to attract and retain staff.
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Arun Estates’ reshuffle
The Arun Estates Group has recruited Keith Knight from Countrywide to head the Brighton and East Sussex division of its Cubitt & West subsidiary.
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