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Latest property news
Key property industry groups sign up to ‘service pledge’ as RoPA nears
Organised by the Home Buying and Selling Group, the pledge is designed to introduce much more transparency into the way estate agents and other players operate.
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Furlough system ‘must be reformed’ to help estate agents survive market restart
The Home Buying & Selling Group says Chancellor must remove three-week furlough rule to enable staff to be moved into and out of system on a weekly basis.
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Associations & Bodies
As industry awaits reservation agreements, Propertymark launches initiative to ‘prevent fall-throughs’
NAEA's three-document 'sales protocol' toolkit, which some might call 'HIPs lite', is designed to speed up the process by bringing forward the information needed to speed up a sale's progression.
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Our Events
The Negotiator Conference & Expo 2019
The grand halls and corridors of London’s Grosvenor Hotel on Park Lane were buzzing with hundreds of delegates, speakers and exhibitors on the 29th November 2019, as they arrived to join The Negotiator Conference 2019. In this stunning venue, with a reputation for first class guest speakers and panel sessions offering hard hitting debate between property leaders such as Michael Stoop, Nick Leeming, Lucy Morton, Lord Best, Peter Bolton King and David Cox (plus many more), The Negotiator Conference stage was ready. Lord Best drew gasps from the audience when he suggested that the end of the small or ‘accidental’ landlord is nigh, that the PRS will increasingly be supplied by larger-portfolio operators. The focus was the property industry in 2020 – exploring what the future holds for sales and letting agents in today’s volatile business environment, including Brexit, regulation, customer hesitation, technology, online agents, diminishing high street footfall, taxation, money laundering, tenant fees and (the then) looming General Election. Brilliantly chaired by The Times columnist Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE, speakers included leading estate agency senior management, industry consultants, analysts, regulators, industry association chiefs and tech innovators. Going to conferences is more than just listening to debates and, as ever…
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It’s official – house hunters returning to the market and sales agreed increasing
Latest figures from NAEA Propertymark suggest a busy few months for agents during the run up to the Spring market.
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New housing minister: what the industry thinks
Estate agents are getting increasingly annoyed by the ever quickening revolving door at the Ministry of Housing as Esther McVey yesterday made way for Chris Pincher.
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Final programme announced for NAEA Propertymark Conference
Speakers at the London conference, which takes place in a month, include well-known names from Trading Standards, Law Society and Knight Frank.
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Ministers ‘not listening’ on perfect storm facing high street estate agents
ARLA and the NAEA Propertymark have written a uncharacteristically blunt joint letter to business minister Andrea Leadsom warning that business rates are driving estate agents off the high street and helping reduce employment within the sector. Signed by both David Cox and Mark Hayward, the letter reflects the growing anger within the industry that the government is unaware of the perfect storm being faced by high street agents. This includes being charged higher business rates than retail premises because agents’ branches are considered offices rather than shops; and facing both increased costs created by additional regulation and competition from online agents, who utilise home-based representatives rather than office staff. “One of our members has told us that the amount they pay in business rates is greater than the annual profit made in a year,” the letter says. Fewer jobs It also suggests that this cost is beginning to impact employment levels; 3,000 fewer people were working within the sales and lettings sectors last year than compared with 2017, Propertymark claims. The letter also points out that while agents support the government’s recent investment in towns and communities and Boris’s electoral commitment to ‘thriving high streets’, the cost of business…
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Charity
100+ propertymark agents sleep out, fundraising for the homeless
Propertymark has organised agents to take part in a charity sleep out at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, with funding from the organisation’s charitable arm, Arbon Trust.
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Features
Summer surge? Autumn dirge? Winter freeze?
Designs on Property tracks and summarises the property indices. Kate Faulkner says, ”When they were up they were up, and when they were down, they were down and when they were only halfway up they were neither up nor down.”
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