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Regional Reports
North Somerset, Exeter and Salisbury
This month we meet members of The Guild of Property Professionals in North Somerset, Exeter and Salisbury.
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Fine & Country expands footprint in West Country with new Exeter office
Premium agent opens new office in Exeter to serve Devon as ‘flight to the country’ shows no sign of abating.
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Regional Reports
Totton (Hants), Exeter and Scotland
Each month we visit three agents across the country to discover what is happening in their local market. This month we meet members of the Guild of Professionals in Totton (Hants), Exeter and Scotland
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One of oldest estate agents in the UK sells up to local rival after 229 years in business
Two-branch Exeter firm Force & Sons has been trading since 1790 but current family owners have decided to leave the industry.
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Property Ombudsman expels record seven members in one month
The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has expelled seven member agents, which is believed to be the largest number kicked out of its scheme in a single month since the organisation was established in 1990. The agents are Exeter firm Bower & Bower, Secret Property in Halifax, Marilla Garland Property Management in Cambridge, Seekers Estate Agents in Birmingham, Alexander Reed in Middlesex, Abby Lettings and Sales in Sunderland and HAB and KAL Properties, also in Middlesex. As is always the case, the agents were taken to TPO by disgruntled customers for breaches of the TPO code of conduct and, after losing their cases, refused or were unable to pay the agreed award and therefore have been expelled. All the companies involved have been kicked out for between one and three years but, unless they pay the agreed awards, will be unable to join any other redress scheme and therefore cannot continue trading. This is an unprecedented number of agents to be kicked out of TPO’s scheme; usually only one or two face the ultimate sanction each month. TPO has highlighted one of the seven cases, which is a shocking tale of two complaints against 44-year-old company Bower & Bower. Shocking case Both…
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Exeter agent cautioned by watchdog over use of portal comparison ad
A magazine advert run in a regional magazine by two-branch Exeter agent Wilkinson Grant has been reported to the Advertising Standards Authority by local rival SaleBoards. The advertisement highlighted how Wilkinson Grant lists its properties on “all the leading property websites” including Rightmove and Zoopla but not OnTheMarket.com,. It also claimed that – through the use of photography – vendors listing with it would receive eight times more people looking at the properties online than with rivals. The ad’s headline said “Would you rather your property is seen by this many people OR this many people?”. More buyers The ad went on to say: “Undoubtedly, Rightmove is the most powerful online property portal, but there are other platforms out there capable of putting your property in front of even more buyers. “A vast number of estate agents choose to market property on Rightmove and via the lesser known property portal OnTheMarket, which we think is bad news for vendors as they will be at a tremendous disadvantage if their property is not listed on Zoopla, the second most visited property portal in the UK and Primelocation … We advertise properties on ALL leading online property sites”. Challenge SaleBoards, which like…
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