Acquisitions
Auction in New York to sell UK flats to dollar-happy buyers (but could referral fee make agents happy too?)
US auction house selling UK property for first time offers estate agents £1,000 per bidder introduction
News
Other News
Pictures of the Week – and it’s jingle links all the way!
Will Rightmove see the ho, ho, ho side?
Lettings
Landlords’ Barometer – #44: Rent rises will not be automatic solution for landlords
Plenty – too much? – going on in the world of landlords
Finance
Sales of Britain’s priciest properties in state of collapse, Land Registry confirms
Collapse in £1m sales across the country could cost the Exchequer £1bn in Stamp Duty take by end of financial year
Lettings
Databases of private tenants as proposed by the RICS already exist
Databases of private tenants can already be found online
Other News
Can this property really have been and come and gone eight times in the last two and a half years?
Mystery as to why this property kept popping up on Rightmove
Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions of independent estate agencies gathering pace, says law firm
Thinking of merging, acquiring or selling? Here's useful advice
Lettings
Tenants launch national campaign to press Chancellor for early fees ban
Tenants group urges renters across UK to make their voices heard in fees ban consultation
Politics
Housing supply continuing to dwindle, warns RICS
Surveyors predict slow start to New Year for housing market
Finance
Annual house price growth up for first time since March – Halifax
Lender warns growth is still likely to slow
Agency
Purplebricks’ shares rocket again – but investor website says £360m valuation is ‘crazy’
Purplebricks has 'yet to make a bean', says investor website which calls valuation of online firm 'perplexing'
Compliance
RICS calls for database which would show ‘good’ and ‘bad’ tenants’ records
Post-lettings fee ban, landlords would be able to search references and payment history online – but only with tenant's permission
Lettings
This has been an ‘annus horribilis’ for landords, says Connells firm
Valuation firm says landlords are wary of new purchases
Agency
Remote viewings service claims agents could use it to raise profit margins
Agents praise trial of remote viewings service carried out with Zoopla
Agency
Coming to an estate agent’s window soon – a home built in the air
New type of starter home built over car parks could sell for £65,000
Lettings
Treasury urged to stop landlords raising rents to cope with tax changes
Lord Beecham tables parliamentary question asking if and how the Government will monitor rents
Finance
More private landlords decide to incorporate as punitive tax changes get nearer
Landlords borrowing finance through company structures will still be able to claim tax relief
Agency
Estate agents come fourth from bottom in ‘trustworthiness’ poll
But are hairdressers and pollsters really more believable?