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Property franchises broaden their horizons
The Property Franchise Group has teamed up with Legal & General and London & Country to offer their customers mortgages across the whole of the market. The Property Franchise Group, the UK’s largest property franchisor with 287 offices nationwide trading under various brand names including Martin & Co, Whitegates, CJ Hole, Parkers and Ellis & Co, hope that the new financial services arm will help to significantly boost company profits. London & Country, the UK’s largest fee free mortgage broker with a 3 per cent market share, expect to arrange in the region of £9 billion worth of mortgages and process 43,000 applications this year, of which 20 per cent are buy-to-let. Phillip Cartwright, Managing Director of London & Country, commented, “Our partnership with The Property Franchise Group is mutually beneficial and we are delighted to be associated with the UK’s largest property franchisor. They have one of the biggest client bases in the sector and we are looking forward to helping their customers take advantage of our award winning, fee free service.” The new financial service offered by The Property Franchise Group will be available via telephone and online. “We chose telephone and web fulfilment because people are busy…
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Belvoir acquires Goodchilds
Belvoir has completed the acquisition of West Midlands based Goodchilds Estate Agents and Lettings Ltd, taking the number of offices in its network to 211. Founded by David Warke in 2004, Goodchilds, which has 16 property sales and lettings branches located across the West Midlands, will now become part of Belvoir-owned Newton Fallowell group, under the leadership of Chief Executive, Mark Newton. Mark Newton said, “I am really looking forward to Goodchilds coming on board, and welcoming a further 16 offices to the Newton Fallowell network, which will bring the total to 46. “The balance of lettings and property sales within the Goodchilds network is currently 70 per cent lettings and 30 per cent estate agency. Newton Fallowell’s strength and expertise in estate agency will help to enhance the sales side of the business and the added support of Belvoir as a parent company will greatly benefit all aspects of business growth.” Aside from significantly increase the volume of offices in Belvoir’s network, the acquisition of Goodchilds has also boosted the number of properties managed by the firm to 35,000. “The acquisition represents a clear strategic fit with our acquisition strategy of building a network based on multi-brand franchises, which…
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