Comings & Goings
Snippets of industry news: Directorate change at Purplebricks; haart’s new area partner joins from from Connells; High-profile hires for Yorkshire-based firm.
NEWS ARCHIVES
Connells Group endorses free app and encourages agents to download it
The Connells Group has endorsed Viewber’s free lone worker safety app, ViewBuddy, and is encouraging all agents to download it.
Strictly amazing – the winners revealed as agents party the night away
Property professionals, including some familiar faces in estate agency, came together at The Epsom Downs Racecourse last week for the annual Agents Giving Charity Ball.
The gap between seller expectations and buyer budgets narrows
Growing concern for the country’s economic outlook sees property price growth come to a virtual halt.
Tenant demand soars as number of active landlords fail to keep pace
Tenancy applications are up 22% compared to the same period last year.
allAgents Customer Experience Awards 2022 pushed back to December
Review website allAgents has announced that this year’s awards ceremony will now be held in December.
The housing boom has been ‘a nice little earner’ for the Scottish government
One hundred homeowners paid average of £84,000 tax to buy property in Scotland.
Improve conveyancing process by bringing it into estate agency, says Quirk
The UK’s ‘archaic’ conveyancing process could benefit from a major shake-up to help speed up property transactions, according to Russell Quirk, co-founder of ProperPR.
eXp UK aims to woo self-employed estate agents with new incentive
eXp UK allows agents to trade with their own ‘name above the door’, but charges agents up to 30% of the commission they generate.
Vendors see ‘telling change’ in achieved price as housing market slows
With demand for property continuing to ease across the UK, some home sellers are now finding that they may have pitched their prices too high for the current market.