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Suspending gender pay gap report is wrong, says leading Countrywide agency
John D Wood says it disagrees with government over its decision to once again delay re-introduction of gender pay gap reporting.
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The Negotiator’s ‘Women in Property’ Power List 2020
Who are the women with the greatest influence and top jobs in the UK sales and lettings? Read on to find out.
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Frightfully impressive: Agents join in the with the Halloween spirit!
Both independents and big corporates alike have tapped into the spirit of ghoulish delight this year. Here's some of their efforts.
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Countrywide estate agency expands in Covid response to London exodus
John D Wood says it's seen a nearly 70% rise in demand for country properties from those fleeing the pandemic-hit capital.
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Hybrid estate agency wins significant new funding from investors
Agent & Homes raise the new cash in just four days despite investors' jitters over the economic effect of the Covid pandemic on the UK housing market.
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Revealed: the losers and winners on the high street for Google searches
Research by a leading digital marketing agency has revealed the high street estate agency winners and losers in the battle to corner the market for Google searches. The report is from MediaVision, which works for several big names in the industry including Rightmove, Douglas & Gordon, Bidwells, Lambert Smith Hampton and Kay & Co. “As a digital agency, we often get asked about key metrics to measure the effectiveness of a client’s broader marketing strategy, and we feel that brand demand is the best metric available,” says its CEO Louis Venter (below). “Put simply, brand demand is the volume of people that Google your brand on a monthly basis.” His company’s report shows that Savills remains the most searched property estate agent in the UK at 74,000 searches followed by Knight Frank, Foxtons, Hamptons, haart, Winkworth, KFH, Carter Jonas and Century 21. But some well-known names have also waned significantly in popularity online including John D Wood (21% down on 2018), Strutt & Parker (-21%), Marsh & Parsons (-12%), Currell (-21%), MyLondonHome (-38%), Harrods Estates (-24%), Haus Properties (-24%), Hotblack Desiato (-49%) and Goldschmidt Howland (-24%). Small and medium-size estate agents who don’t appear on the list shouldn’t worry unduly;…
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Rigid office hours and branches are NOT the future of estate agency
Two high street agents who last year started up a hybrid agency have also claimed that vendors and landlords' busy lives mean the traditional approach is obsolete.
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Countrywide lettings chief jumps ship to Nick Dunning Associates
South African Tim Van der Schyff has left Countrywide's premium John D Wood business to head up the lettings portfolio of Nick Dunning Associates.
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John D Wood scrapes in to help Londoners survive the Beast from the East
Few agents will have considered making promotional capital from the week’s Beast from the East storm, but London agency John D Wood has, and should get this year’s award for quick thinking. The company’s branch in the SW London suburb of Wandsworth yesterday morning decided to hand out ice scrapers to cars parked on streets within its patch, garnering praise from locals on social media. Branch employees were up at 7.30am distributing the scrapers, which came with a note saying: “Please find your complimentary ice scraper on your bonnet this morning. “We wanted to reach out to our closest neighbours and leave you a small token to hopefully come to your aid on this very cold morning!”. Beast from the east Branch manager James Wright (pictured, below) and a colleague spent an hour or so placing the unusual ‘direct mail’ onto the windscreens of 250 cars on six streets around its branch in central Wandsworth. “We do the usual door drops and occasionally we distribute local market insight reports as flyers at the train station, but this is first time we’ve done this,” he says. “To be honest, we’d had the ice scrapers sitting around gathering dust for some time…
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John D Wood says goodbye to Faron Sutaria with… free coffee?
Countrywide recently announced that the Faron Sutaria brand would be disappearing and its remaining branches rebranded as John D Wood & Co. But the change of name has been “celebrated” in an unusual way. Every day this week and into next week staff from the re-branded central London branches are to give away nearly 2,000 cups of coffee to bleary-eyed commuters. The on-the-go coffee give-away is taking place during the morning rush hour near five branches; Notting Hill Gate, South Kensington, Fulham Broadway, Earls Court and Sloane Square. Coffee vans The coffee will be supplied by the kind of mobile vans familiar to city dwellers these days, which were hired from and staffed by London-based coffee firm Café Santiago. Today’s activity was on Earls Court Road at which members of the local John D Wood branch were present including (from L to R) Lisa Cavanagh-Smith (Senior Lettings Manager), Samiye Mahmoud (Office Manager) and Jiselle Jessop (Senior Lettings Operations Coordinator), Jessica Wright (Associate), William Miles ( Sales Negotiator) as pictured, above. The campaign kicked off on Monday in Sloane Square and then moved to Fulham Broadway on Tuesday (see picture below) and each morning 250 cups of coffee are being given away which a John D Wood…
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