Ex-Chestertons director joins expanding estate agency recruitment firm
Experienced agent becomes latest franchisee in fast-growing recruitment firm
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Private home owners facing bill to replace cladding on tower blocks
Property manager trade body backs freeholder rights to charge for repairs
EYE NEWSFLASH: MPs vote through Bill allowing tenants to sue landlords over poor housing
Labour MP’s Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation and Liability for Housing Standards) Bill moves forward after commons debate today
Purplebricks will be big winner and Rightmove to lose ground, predict bank analysts
Purplebricks now converting 78% of instructions to sales, claims new report
Home owners of low EPC properties could be forced to upgrade them before sale
Homes with EPCs of F and G could be banned from sales market, as clock ticks towards ban on low energy rental homes
Foreign investors left nursing huge losses as they scramble to get out of off-plan deals
Problem has been ‘massively under-reported’ says agent
More than half of Brits experiencing problems with ‘rogue’ estate or letting agents, claim
Agency trade bodies claim members provide higher level of consumer protection
Connells Group ‘boosts its share of new instructions in falling market’
‘Biggest’ estate agency group sees ‘encouraging’ start to 2018
Yopa publishes YouTube video giving five reasons why it’s different to other agents — but what happened to it?
Video gains 32 views and then suddenly disappears from website
Solicitors’ Property Centre reports losses as it mounts fight-back against portals’ listings of agents
Solicitors’ Property Centre falls into loss as it draws up national strategy to compete with portals – and Rightmove ups the ante
New tenant legislation would drive ‘bad boys’ underground, warns letting agency boss
Government needs to regulate the industry rather than adopt a ‘piecemeal approach’, says Haart Lettings boss
Conveyancers banking on more agency referrals as they anticipate growing workload in 2018
Half of conveyancing firms admit to hiking fees last year
EYE NEWSFLASH: Countrywide warns of dramatic fall in profit
Sales and lettings business profits expected to be almost half – down 45%, says Countrywide
High street agent Romans slams allAgents after being named second worst after Purplebricks
Romans follows on from Purplebricks, saying it will look at ‘negative’ comments on reviews site
Hunters to advertise ‘super-short term’ lets on Airbnb and Booking.com
Service allows landlords and vendors the chance to maximise income from empty or unsold properties
Continued slide in new instructions now goes on for nearly two years, say RICS agents
RICS research makes for gloomy reading as surveyors report drop in new instructions, sales agreed and new buyer enquiries
Harry Potter author JK Rowling blasts estate agent on Twitter — but did he deserve it?
Rowling denies that she has ever been to pub sold for a rumoured £4m by Devon agent
Winkworth in line for greater-than-expected profits
The franchise network still expects to have finished 2017 strongly despite sales slump
Home mover numbers recover to record levels after 2016 slump, claim
Lloyds research claims record low mortgage rates have helped movers climb the property ladder
Agent warns against ‘very risky’ cryptocurrency transactions as Bitcoin value plummets
Volatility of cryptocurrencies likely to disadvantage a smooth sale, agent warns