Events
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
News
Finance
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
People
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.
Compliance
Agents should be aware of countries NOT on the Covid quarantine exception list
Health checking customers means finding out where they have been abroad
Agency
Group relaunches lettings after Purplebricks’ restriction elapses
Well known North-West agency group gets back into lettings
Finance
Stamp duty threshold change is not impacting the mortgage market
Buyers not increasing purchase budgets despite saving on SDLT
Charity
Mud! Glorious mud! – The latest Agents Giving challenge
Postponed Agents Giving Love Mud Challenge 2020 will now take place
Agency
Countrywide agency switches utility provider – and the property owner objects
Agent appears to have acted without consent when it switched electricity supply to Spark
People
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?
Other News
Brothers opened fire in terrifying attack on estate agency in revenge for eviction Notice
Shots fired at agent's office and company car
Law
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
Law
OPINION – Why the ‘no DSS’ ban is timely but will not solve housing insecurity
If housing insecurity is to be resolved, the system must be adapted
Agency
New instructions and sales agreed surge after stamp duty announcement – The Guild
CEO details the sales performance of the 800 agencies in the group
Law
Guidance for resumption of possession proceedings
There are several legal issues that may adversely affect a landlord's claim
Agency
Yopa says it has reached profitability six months ahead of schedule
Agency says it has substantial amounts of cash and plans significant recruitment in future
Other News
£80,000 Porsche smashes into estate agency
Young man will have some explaining to do after crashing dad's car
Finance
Another £4m raised by free to use letting platform
Company that bought emoov's brand and IT tops up its backing to £7m
Other News
First it was ‘Sexiest Agents’, now it’s ‘Bruce’s Banging Bargains’
Property renovation was started one punch at a time