Picture of the week – Sleep well children…
Buyer of this house will face difficult choices about which bits of fine art to retain
News Archive
Comings and goings
App for investors; openings at Jackson Stops; new branding at BoardClever; appointments at William H Brown
Serious phishing scam affects Zoopla and Lettingweb
Fraudulent property listings put tenants at risk of losing hundreds of pounds
Agents hit by job shortages as vacancies plummet during the pandemic
Official data shows agency sector ranks as one of the lowest for current job availability
How will the property market fare as the economy enters recession?
Some think housing market can shrug off the effects of the huge drop in GDP
Too many firms are ignoring staff safety
Agent highlights what firms can do to protect lone workers
Supply ‘exceeding normal levels’ since Stamp Duty cut but how long can it last?
Property market recovery expected to last for next three months
EXCLUSIVE: 2020 EA Masters will be ‘an estate agency event on a scale never before seen in this country’
The leading property industry annual event is going ahead – and it is going digital
Connells Group show strong half year results despite the effects of lockdown
Profits down because of Covid but performance is now well up compared to this time last year
Very Vacant – the vacuum at the top of the industry’s significant companies – Part 2
Strategic direction must come from grass-roots property experience, not from the shiny certificate on an Oxbridge grad’s wall.
Agents should be aware of countries NOT on the Covid quarantine exception list
Health checking customers means finding out where they have been abroad
Comings and goings
Hunters opens franchise; Solicitors get competitive on Exchange Train
Group relaunches lettings after Purplebricks’ restriction elapses
Well known North-West agency group gets back into lettings
Stamp duty threshold change is not impacting the mortgage market
Buyers not increasing purchase budgets despite saving on SDLT
Mud! Glorious mud! – The latest Agents Giving challenge
Postponed Agents Giving Love Mud Challenge 2020 will now take place
Countrywide agency switches utility provider – and the property owner objects
Agent appears to have acted without consent when it switched electricity supply to Spark
Very Vacant – the vacuum at the top of the industry’s significant companies – Part 1
Are the hirers for the top jobs looking in the wrong place?
Brothers opened fire in terrifying attack on estate agency in revenge for eviction Notice
Shots fired at agent’s office and company car
Comings and goings
Short notes about people, places, and things
Recruitment crisis in conveyancing as hundreds of vacancies remain unfilled
Lack of conveyancing staff may be the reason your deals are taking longer to progress