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Countrywide upmarket agency Hamptons to advertise on TV for first time
Estate agency says ad will launch on digital TV on Boxing Day, run for a month and be seen by over 1.4 million households.
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Stamp duty deadline is speeding up landlord consolidation
Hamptons says 15% of all sales last month were larger landlords rushing to hoover up properties being sold by exiting smaller operators.
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Strutt & Parker reveals new top team as it ‘shifts towards digital’
Final line-up comes after its former UK head Steve Martin moved up to join parent company BNP Paribas's senior team, clearing the way for a restructure of its senior team.
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Countrywide furloughs mortgage brokers and warns other staff to be ready
Countrywide’s 10,000 employees have been told via email today that they face being furloughed as the Coronavirus lock-down continues to kill the property market. The Negotiator has been told that the email prepares staff for the eventuality and that employees at the company’s financial services division, which has been particularly impacted by the property market hard stop, have already been furloughed. While some sales and lettings activity is continuing, the work of mortgage brokers has been doubly difficult to sustain – home buyers are understandably reluctant to take on new debt or remortgage at the moment, while lenders have been withdrawing products and asking for ever larger LTV ratios. Countrywide’s decision is thought to be linked to the government’s announcement earlier this week that all sales and lettings home moves should not proceed unless they were already past exchange and contractually unable to stop. Work remotely Countrywide had already sent all of its employees home to work remotely and closed branches as per government advice which, now that the Coronavirus Bill has passed, is backed up by police powers to shut business premises that are not on the exempted list. The decision by Countrywide to consider furloughing its staff is…
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Are the portals past it? UK’s largest landlord signs up to list properties on lettings app
Grainger has signed up to use Movebubble and puts lots of resource into its own website to attract tenants, but only lists on one portal – Rightmove.
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Company landlords on the rise, says Hamptons
International Monthly Lettings Index shows that 12% of rented homes are at the highest level in eight years.
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Landlords splash the cash in London and the North of England
Much of the cash comes from re-mortgaging says Hamptons’ Head of Research.
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Proptech
Countrywide exec joins fintech firm backed by £10m new funding
Start-up Unmortgage backed with £10m is to offer home buyers a 'third way' to property ownership, helped by former Hamptons exec Johnny Morris.
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Movers & Shakers
New National Head of Lettings for Hamptons
Hamptons International has appointed its Senior Regional Director, Catherine Westerling, as national Head of Lettings.
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Charity
Hamptons at Gatcombe Park
Hamptons International sponsored The Festival of British Eventing, presented by the British Equestrian Trade Association, for the 13th consecutive year.
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