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Revealed: Stath Lets Flats creator’s candid views on industry
Jamie Demetriou has told a London paper what branch staff tell him when he's on viewings to get 'titbits' for his series.
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World’s worst estate agent returns to Channel 4
Second series of comedy Stath Lets is to start at at 10pm tonight and tackles several real-life issues including proptech and letting agencies selling out to rivals in a tough market.
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Exclusive: Hunters CEO reveals ‘behind the scenes’ details of TV show
Glynis Frew says she'd hire all of the children who featured on Channel 4's When I Grow Up show.
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Estate agency comparison site GetAgent raises £2.2 million from latest investment round
Venture capitalists join forces with Channel 4 to raise extra funds for the four-year-old proptech firm.
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Letting agency featured on Channel 4 documentary expelled by ombudsman
Read how a Manchester letting agency that featured within a Channel 4 documentary has now been expelled by TPO for non payment of an award.
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DEAL IS ON: Online lettings firm Urban and Tepilo bought by Emoov
After nearly a month of negotiations the acquisition of Tepilo and Urban by Emoov is to go ahead, creating a sizeable No.2 in the online property market.
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eMoov and Tepilo in talks to merge and take on Purplebricks
Online agents eMoov and Tepilo and in advanced negotiations to merge and take on Purplebricks including a future AIM listing.
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Channel 4 makes ‘significant investment’ in agent comparison site
Four-year-old proptech firm GetAgent has struck an equity-for-media deal with national broadcaster Channel 4 today.
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Housing market needs 2 million new homes now to solve crisis
Former housing minister Grant Shapps has suggested that the time for radical solutions has come if the UK stands any chance of solving the current housing market problems. Shapps, who was housing minister from 2010 to 2012, made the comments during a live section of Friday night’s Channel 4 News that examined the housing market. He suggested that between one and two million new homes need to be built over the next five to ten years. That would mean up to five sizeable garden cities to be built within the countryside, Shapps suggested. “We need to build in areas where there aren’t that many people in the first place, thus reducing the difficult of building,” he said. Housing market Referring to comments on the programme by Matt Thomson (pictured, right), Head of Planning at the Campaign to Protect Rural England that brownfield sites could help make room for new homes and that it “was not necessary to build on the green belt”, Shapps said citing brownfield as the solution to the housing crisis was “conning people”. Shapps also said that even building an extra 200,000 homes a year – which is often cited as the minimum number to help alleviate…
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The unusually driven former Countrywide agent
On more challenging days when sales targets are slipping or landlords haranguing them, who would blame a Countrywide agent for dreaming of a new job. That’s what happened in July this year to former Countrywide assistant branch manager Haley Chavner, only this time she turned her plans into reality. The 32-year-old had been working for Abbotts Countrywide at its branch in Rochford, Essex for several years working her way up from an admin job to Negotiator and then Assistant Branch Manager. And then she had a bright idea. She quit and joined forces with Leigh-on-Seas car leasing firm Planet Leasing, whose owners Darren Nash and Gary Rose (pictured, left to right) featured in last summer’s Channel 4 ‘car-crash’ reality TV programme, The Job Interview. Her idea was to launch a car leasing firm just for estate agents called Cars4Agents.com and the business has now launched. “I’m acutely aware of the many day to day challenges faced by estate agents,” says Haley (pictured, left). “Expectations of what a customer considers value for money has altered with the advent of online agents competing at low prices with traditional high street set-ups. “Differentiation is imperative and it’s important for those in the industry need…
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