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The Negotiator Awards 2019 Shortlist is announced!
The judging is over and the Shortlist for the UK's most prestigious awards programme for estate and letting agents – and suppliers – is revealed. Look who's on it!
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No more ‘Staff’ at Jackson Stops
Jackson-Stops & Staff has rebranded as Jackson-Stops, dropping ‘& Staff’ from its name.
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Sales agreed, prices and time to sell increasing despite election, says Rightmove
This summer’s election campaign is having a less corrosive effect on sales levels than two years ago when David Cameron made his bid for power, Rightmove has claimed. Its monthly house price index reveals that the number of sales agreed so far this year is 2% higher than during the lead up to the 2015 general election. Rightmove also reckons that the number of days it takes to sell a property is reducing too, down from 79 days in January 2017 to 60 days in April 2017. The reduction is even sharper in London, where in January it took 71 days to sell a home, compared to 53 days in April. Stock levels are rising too, Rightmove says. The number of properties for sale per agent has risen from 52 in January to 57 in April. House prices are also rising, the portal’s index reveals, increasing during April by 1.2% or £3,626 on average, the fifth consecutive rise. All-time high “Whilst all-time high asking prices or economic and political uncertainty could be deterrents to would-be home-buyers, this month shows another strong set of figures,” says Rightmove’s spokesman and director Miles Shipside (pictured, left). “Demand is exceeding supply in many parts of the country…
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Jackson-Stops & Staff expands to offer holiday lets
Jackson-Stops & Staff’s Sherborne branch has moved into holiday lettings...
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Movers & Shakers
Richard Addington returns to Jackson-Stops & Staff
Jackson-Stops & Staff’s Exeter branch has welcomed back Richard Addington to the country and waterside team...
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Jackson-Stops & Staff now does holiday lettings
Jackson-Stops & Staff’s Sherborne branch has moved into holiday lettings, expanding its residential sales business by amalgamating with a well-known holiday letting company, Sherborne Cottages. Owned by its Branch Director Philip German-Ribon and wife Arabella, Sherborne Cottages has been amalgamated into the current business, which will now act as the go-to branch for both buyers in search of property in Sherborne and those looking to spend a few weeks taking in all that the historic market town has to offer. Philip German-Ribon, Director of Jackson-Stops & Staff’s Sherborne branch and owner of Sherborne Cottages, said, “The holiday lettings market goes hand in hand with our already well-established residential sales business as we often receive interest from buyers outside of the West Country who like to ‘test-drive’ the area. “Dorset has much to offer, with glorious beaches and stunning countryside, but it is especially famous for offering the quintessential thatched cottage holiday experience, attracting visitors from around the world”, says Philip. “Sherborne is a beautiful town and the properties available to let through Sherborne Cottages make a great base for those looking to explore its history and rolling countryside across the county of Dorset, but also surrounding areas such as Somerset and…
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Post Brexit vote market is still buoyant…but only just
The number of properties on the market has increased by 1% since the Brexit vote but the number under offer has dropped by 2.5% and national asking prices are down by 2% reports Jackson-Stops & Staff. The agent has given its verdict on the post-Brexit vote market after looking at 500,000 properties for sale across the UK. “Three months after the UK’s historic vote to leave the EU, the property market remains alive and active [and] there are more properties on the market today than on the day of the Brexit vote,” says chairman Nick Leeming. Predictions during the EU referendum of a bloodbath in London after the Brexit vote have proved to be inaccurate, the JSS research suggests, as it reveals that asking prices in the capital are down by only 3% since mid-June and that “properties priced below £1m are still seeing high levels of interest”. London’s £2m+ prime market is in less good shape. Only 7% of properties in this price bracket are under agreed offer compared to 36.1% nationally, the JSS research reveals. Leeming says this is down to a range of factors including reduced confidence in the prime property following Brexit and the increased Stamp…
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