Agency
“If the horse is dead, get off” – John Wayne
Online estate agency is done. Not finished, but done. It has settled where it is and it will not grow further.
News
Agency
Buyer registrations boom as agent reports surge in demand for family homes
Stamp Duty holiday benefiting properties in the £600,000-£700,000 price bracket
People
Comings and goings
Curchods video tech; Simplify appointment; Redbrik joins Land & New Homes Network
Compliance
Westminster launches HMO checker to help combat rogue landlords
Tenants in an unlicenced HMO could be enitled to payback of up to 12 months rent
Agency
Former Frost’s MD launches new business consultancy
Andrew Gilchrist sets out his training, coaching and consulting stall - The Business of Estate Agency
Tech
Over 275,000 people sign up to the ‘Homemover Zooploma’
Portal aims to help buyers through each stage of the home moving process
Tech
New portal for property investors launches today
"Building the world's most intelligent property platform"
Agency
Zoopla secures £50,000 prize to advertise the portal to national newspaper readers
Portal promises 'aspirational and financially secure leads for agents'
Politics
Property sales down by a quarter compared with last year – HMRC
HMRC gives early indication of sales in the post-lockdown property market
Politics
More reactions to latest HMRC figures
Industry welcomes post-lockdown sales figures but is wary about the future
Other News
It’s all going online, innit? Apparently not for Alex Chesterman
Zoopla's founder changes tack with his formerly online-only car sales business
Lettings
“What we need now is less of the vitriol which pervades any discussion around arrears and evictions” – Isobel Thomson
safeagent creates plan for a sustainable post-COVID PRS
Other News
What will agents be selling in 2030? – Designing the homes of the future
Sustainability, the environment, and well-being will strongly influence the homes of tomorrow
Finance
Prop-tech platform aims to digitise the buying and selling process
Barclays backs fledgling business that has so far raised £3.6m
Lettings
Letting agent and police officers attacked with fire extinguisher spray
Homeless woman resisted eviction from holiday cottage
Lettings
Two sides of the renting coin – strong views about landlords and tenants
Landlords facing losses and renters in fear of losing their homes - the two sides of the renting debate
Other News
Picture of the week – and this door puts a different slant on it
This door will play with your mind...
Compliance
Five critical points for letting agents to check
A rise in fraud in client accounting is predicted as a result of lockdown
Finance
Chancellor’s SDLT reduction is a ‘potential future tax trap’
Fears that Rishi Sunak will claw back his SDLT generosity by way of changes to capital gains tax