We’ve got to get out of this place – city dwellers head for the villages
Rightmove shows home hunters leaping over towns as they seek a life in the country
News Archive
Increased demand across the board – Fine & Country
Estimate of 750,000 housing market transactions in 2020 may prove to be low
Yorkshire estate agency gives £25K donation to hospice
Generous estate agency has given hospice almost £100,000 in last five years
Rightmove appoints new Chief Financial Officer on potential earnings of £1.75m
Former chief strategy officer at News UK joins Rightmove
Where is the most lucrative place to be an estate agent?
Capital cities head the list of commission-earning hot spots
Market share – the winners and losers since Covid hit
Corporates lost most market share during lockdown but are coming back strongly
OnTheMarket delivered record leads in July
OnTheMarket’s TV campaign begins again
Comings and goings
Short notes about agencies, people, and things
Impressive government rhetoric on planning changes does not stand up to scrutiny
Conditions attached to new planning rules will severely limit the impact of any changes
Rate of rental growth falls – especially in London, says Zoopla
Covid will impact demand in some markets for the rest of this year
Website technical issue leads to complaint to the ASA
Property listing only appeared on one portal, when three had been advertised
Severe criticism follows Welsh Government decision on possession notices
Call for Welsh Government to work contstructively with landlords to sustain tenancies
Slight cooling as market settles into its latest ‘new normal’ – sentiment tracker
Strong demand from buyers seeking to move out of London and other major cities
Rightmove are making redundancies – but not as many as some may have thought
Just 10 jobs going at Rightmove
First submission to HMLR of an electronically signed deed
Paying customer finds electronic deed signature process quick and secure
Covid will cause the greatest changes in estate agency since the arrival of the internet
History is littered with the corpses of those businesses who didn’t adapt, adopt and improve
TPFG chairman sells £1.4m of shares
Disposal of shares still leaves chairman and wife with over 30% of the business
Properties coming to market at highest rate since beginning of 2020 – weekly index
More instructions coming on but fewer going SSTC last week
UK buyers ‘surprised by stiffness of competition’ – Knight Frank
Lockdown bargain-hunters may be disappointed by what’s happening in UK property markets
NRLA partners with Scottish Association of Landlords
Landords’ associations now offer joint membership north and south of the border