Beauchamp Estates opens new offices in south of France
Beauchamp Estates says it is now looking at office premises in both Monaco and London for future potential expansion
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Fine & Country expands Luxury Homes Tour Series with new host
Elizabeth Warburton is a regular presenter for Property Elevator for Property TV, which airs on Sky TV
Inheritance tax receipts reach £5.7bn from April ’23
The government’s income from death duties is going up
EYE NEWSFLASH: Leaders Romans Group acquires Stirling Ackroyd, Alexander & Co and Peter Ball
Major deals mark LRG’s first acquisitions of 2024
Thousands of property firms on ‘brink of collapse’, warn insolvency experts
Surge in companies facing ‘critical’ financial distress, with property and construction sectors featuring heavily, says Begbies Traynor
Letting agency director receives suspended prison sentence for fraud
The owner of an agency in avoids jail after defrauding landlords of thousands of pounds
Tributes paid following death of former estate agency director
The well-respected estate agent has died following battle with cancer
Independent estate agency acquires local rival
Estate agent has retired and sold his business to a local estate agency
New solution to help agents prepare for Material Information parts B and C
Agents using the Sprift platform will now be able to generate and check the information required to comply with parts A, B and C of Material Information set by NTSELAT
Comings & Goings
Snippets of industry news: New director at Cooper and Tanner; Ex Savills and Chestertons director joins Harding Green; Godwin bolsters team with residential hire
Fixflo parent company agrees partnership with automated client accounting engine
The partnership aims to provide more agents with the solution to automate rental payment reconciliation and streamline the whole rental process
Number of property millionaires across Britain ‘fell by 60,000 during 2023’
The total number of property millionaires dropped during the year to the end of 2023, with higher mortgage costs and tougher housing market conditions having an impact
Government’s 1% deposit mortgages could ‘fuel house price bubble’
Economists and housing experts warned that such a scheme could create “massive risk” for taxpayers and would push up prices
Comings & Goings
Snippets of industry news: Christine Penny leaves Sotheby’s International to join Savills; New starters and promotions at Nicol & Co; Senior appointment at Cushman & Wakefield
Those who forecasted a sharp drop in house prices ‘may be proven wrong’
Regionally, sentiment among buyers remains fairly consistent, while seller confidence is growing
Major agency agrees partnership to offer tenants a deposit alternative
The agency will now be able to offer their customers both traditional deposits and the no deposit solution across all of their UK branches
Propertymark urges government to extend qualifications to PRS agents
Propertymark wants the government to implement recommendation set out in the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group Report and create a clear roadmap to new stricter rules
Homeowners made profit of over £100,000 on average property sale last year
Overall, 93% of households sold their property in 2023 for more than they paid for it, new study shows
PayProp back ‘balancing’ amendments to Renters (Reform) Bill
Conservative MP Anthony Mangnall last week tabled a series of amendments
Flex Together mortgage launched for first-time buyers struggling with affordability
The income boosting Flex Together Joint Borrower Sole Proprietor product is designed to appeal to first-timer buyers struggling with the cost-of-living crisis