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Latest property news New Wimbledon champion has an estate agency backgroundCarlos Alcaraz's Dad, who was in the Centre Court crowd, used to run an estate agency near the family's home in southern Spain. Read More »
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Latest property news Location, Location, Location TV presenter Phil Spencer to launch property data companyLocation, Location, Location TV presenter Phil Spencer will this week launch a business that offers buyers a paid-for detailed property report about their intended purchase designed to give them more leverage when negotiating. Advice and information within the reports will include a property’s title register, a valuation provided by Zoopla, boundary plans, property photos, details of recent local planning applications plus more standard fare such as local crime rates, amenities and schools. The reports, which are paid for through website 192.com but created by MoveIQ, the name of Phil’s new advice business, cost approximately £15, alhtough noundary plans and title deeds costs extra. “Aside from all this general advice, the Move iQ Property Report has been specifically designed to help people form a rounded opinion on the pros as well as the cons of a particular property they’re considering,” says Phil. “My intention here has been to try and simplify the data and make it easier to understand as well as advise buyers and tenants how to use the information to their advantage.” He says the service is designed to address one of the key problems buyers face in the market; that they are not represented professionally in the buying… Read More »
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Latest property news It’s just hearsay…online agent claims celebrity clientMost estate and letting agents have a celebrity client story to tell. It might be an A-lister viewing a city pad or country pile, a downsizing ageing rock star or a recently-enriched boyband member on the hunt for a party pad. It’s not always plain sailing, though. Last year Rowan Atkinson at first listed his Cotswolds home with agent Carter Jonas and then, after a buyer wasn’t forthcoming, decided to switch agent and try Strutt & Parker. But for online-only letting agent Upad their celebrity moment came recently when former Hear’Say member Noel Sullivan decided to log on, much to the surprise of its staff. The singer and more recently TV actor, who was brought up in Cardiff and initially trained as an opera singer, is now a client. He’s currently on tour with the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and also has a new album out, Here I Go Again, and has just landed a TV role in BBC drama Ordinary Lies. Sullivan has been renting out his one-bedroom apartment in SW London for some time and recently switched from a traditional local agent to Upad, and now appears to be an enthusiastic convert to the online model. He cites “astronomical… Read More »








