NEWS ARCHIVES

Grainne Gilmore, head of research, Zoopla: “Buyer demand will remain strong moving into next year.”

Nathan Emerson: “Estate agents across the country are working with some of the lowest levels of available homes we have ever seen yet demand from buyers is not easing.”

This year’s jury panel said all this year’s award winners – and their employers – “should be incredibly proud of what they have achieved”. 

I. Stephanie Boyce: “It would be a welcome step to make non-means tested legal advice available to those facing repossession before their case actually ends up in court.”

Paul Harris, managing director at Ocean: “We are by no means satisfied with offsetting our carbon and leaving it there.”

NRLA’s Ben Beadle: “As demand picks up following lockdown measures we need a stimulus to support responsible landlords to provide the homes to rent we vitally need.”

Sacked estate agent Lewis Hughes who attacked Chris Whitty in a park ambush avoided jail.

Patrick Bullick: “For years, I have been horrified by the sheer number of highly trained, skilled women who leave the lettings side of the property industry – never to return.”

James Forrester: “The reason the company gave for their demise was ‘online competition, low fees and lack of stock’. Come off it.”

The estate agency is targeting 100 new franchisees in 2022.