Online agent defends fixed upfront fee model, saying it works best for vendors
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London housing shortage a ticking time bomb for businesses in growing struggle to recruit and keep staff
Employers despair as housing costs in London drive staff out of jobs
Tech-savvy generation of renters pose greatest threat to future of ‘blinkered’ high street agents, claim
Tech-driven millennials ‘could be death of letting agents’
Major industry figure Suzie Pattison steps down after 28 years at Ravensworth
Ravensworth managing director Suzie Pattison quitting after almost three decades
Rentals and lettings agent reviews firm launches £800,000 crowdfunding campaign saying it is worth almost £4m
Movebubble has turned to the public to fund its growth
Average rents fall across the UK for first time in six years, suggesting this is more than a correction
Deposit Protection Service says average rents across the UK are down for the first time since 2009
Landlords trying to make up for their tax losses with rent hikes, says ARLA
Lettings agents say proportion of tenants seeing rent increases is at a six-month high
OPINION: Will voluntary reservations work if they are not given teeth?
Duncan Samuel, managing director of Gazeal, welcomes the Government’s recent paper into reforming the housing market but wonders if it goes far enough
Husband and wife agency relocate from Keller Williams to arch rival RE/MAX
Firm departs the Keller Williams network for franchise rival
EYE NEWSFLASH! Pain goes on for Countrywide as it reveals revenue trailing away by millions
Revenue plunges £17m in first quarter of this year, reveals Countrywide
Organisers of prize draw for home rapped by watchdog after raffle never took place because not enough tickets sold
Organisers of home raffle told that cash prize offered instead of home was not ‘reasonable equivalent’
Mayor Andy Burnham will ‘buy out rental properties’ in amnesty for bad landlords
Andy Burnham pledges to isolate those that give lettings sector a bad name
Battle of the Ombudsmen round two: Property Redress Scheme lures NALS agents
Let battle commence: Redress schemes bid to lure agents from outgoing(ish) Ombudsman Services: Property
Have some London estate agents slipped up on their anti-money laundering checks?
Warnings that agents may have been slack with their anti-money laundering after London homes sold to ‘mafia’ members
Tributes after death of founder ex-chairman of National Landlords Association and UKALA
Man who transformed landlords organisation and was at head of UK Association of Letting Agents dies at 74
London agency removes property from Rightmove after complaint to ASA
Rental property advertised as available when it already had tenants, says Advertising Standards Authority
HMRC data suggests the property market may have started warming up again in March
Mind the gap! HMRC’s property transaction figures show marked differences between adjusted and non-adjusted data
Sales are failing to keep up with new listings in key UK cities, says Hometrack
Hometrack highlights how supply and demand imbalance is helping northern cities but stifling the south
Rents continue to climb as London slowdown halts – Your Move
Agent’s latest Rental Tracker shows rental prices continue to rise
Estate agency staffing crisis at worst in a generation, says UK’s longest-standing recruiter
One-third of new entrants ‘have no experience of estate agency’