NEWS ARCHIVES

Limited rental stock and increased demand has resulted in tenants extending existing tenancies rather than relocating.

New housing supply is currently lower than the government’s ambition of 300,000 new homes per year, leaving estate agents short of much-needed stock of homes for sale and to let.

Proposals include making it “clearly illegal” to pay someone to write or host fake reviews.

Q1 trading update: Foxtons says ‘all areas of the business’ is performing in line with company expectations, and is now increasing the number of sales negotiators in its branches.

New Property Industry Eye contributor, Jeremy Harford Tapp, director of Homeflow and digital strategist for estate agents, explains how you can improve your agency’s online performance.

A number of buy-to-let landlords have divested their portfolios and left the private rented sector in recent years due to an increase in regulation and rules. 

The new estate agency has been established by Mark Beim, who previously worked as a negotiator at Knight Frank, Robert Holmes, Alan Briegel and Coombe Residential.

Former Countrywide chief executive and chairman Grenville Turner has been appointed as chairperson of the BidX1 board.

The new deputy Ombudsman, Lesley Horton, will work alongside Property Ombudsman, Rebecca Marsh.

John Paul will share what he sees as the best practice approaches to running and retaining staff members in what some agents are currently finding is a challenging market.