Agency
Is change worth risking – or do you do better to sit back and watch?
Small agents may have too much to lose if they don't embrace change: is sitting and watching handing the advantage to larger rivals?
News
Agency
Agent fined in ‘cartel’ case turns things around by winning top awards gong
Waterfords receives accolade as UK's best medium agency
Acquisitions
Persimmon unveils plans for brick factory as sales increase 19%
Building bricks despite Brexit
Other News
Asking prices being cut right across central London – but don’t blame Brexit
Vendors pull out of the market because they cannot achieve desired price
Agency
Virtual reality comes to Fine & Country
Agent to roll out in-branch virtual reality tours nationwide
Agency
‘Hesitant’ buyers and sellers as sales slow, says Connells
Proportion of first-time buyers drops to 14%
Other News
Student tenants refuse to hand out any gongs in new property awards scheme
Awards category ditched after customers say that student accommodation is over-priced and not what they want
Compliance
Home Office announces date when breaching Right to Rent rules can give agents criminal records
Agents warned that there is under a month until new crackdown on illegal immigrant tenants
Acquisitions
LSL sells last of its Zoopla shares
Connells is last agent standing with a stake in Zoopla Property Group
Compliance
Avoid using ‘administration’ to describe your fees, ARLA tells agents
However, ARLA managing director welcomes outcome of Foxtons case
Agency
Agent paints gloomy picture for central London market as sales collapse almost 50%
Strutt & Parker forecasts central London prices down by 10% this year – and lettings transactions also down
Agency
Agent reported by competitor to advertising watchdog over leaflet
Advertising Standards Authority settles two more cases informally
Finance
JLL predicts an 11% drop in transactions next year as Brexit hits
Forecasts claim base rate could hit 0.1% this year.
Other News
Could online agent offer a free ice cream with every listing?
And will it disrupt the ice cream market?
Finance
Rental inflation returns to London market, says ONS
Have we finally got an answer to why ONS data is so different to private indices?
Compliance
Foxtons fined after ten-month breach over display of letting agent fees
But in key case for all agents, Foxtons wins substantive argument about fees detail that must be given
Agency
Paul Smith opinion: Why are Purplebricks so cagey over sales figures?
Purplebricks should come clean on how it has arrived at claim that 88% of homes are sold within ten months, says Spicerhaart boss
Law
Ombudsman issues clarification for agents perplexed by change in Code
Letting agents should, rather than must, obtain tenants' express consent to enter property, says TPO
Charity
Age UK warns that older renters are living in ‘squalor and distress’
Charity says tenants on older tenancies are neglected by landlords