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Taxpayer-backed mortgage indemnity scheme extended to all new-home buyers     Penitent Property Place announces details of new deals for agents     Estate agents' review site launches consumer awareness campaign     PropertyLive doubles traffic in a year     Estate agent's 'have a go' bravery commended in court    

The government-backed 95% mortgage indemnity scheme originally intended for first-time buyers and those buying cheaper new homes is to be extended to all  buyers of new homes costing up to £500,000...

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Penitent Property Place announces details of new deals for agents
Saturday 4 February 2012

Property Place, the new Facebook property platform, has released details of its deals for agents. It is charging £50 per month per agency (not branch), and will fix its fees for two years...

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Estate agents' review site launches consumer awareness campaign
Saturday 4 February 2012

New estate agent review site Meet My Agent has launched a consumer campaign aimed at generating consumer reviews and increasing public awareness of the site...

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PropertyLive doubles traffic in a year
Saturday 4 February 2012

PropertyLive, the NFoPP website, more than doubled traffic last year. Members have also been told that the number of property listings significantly increased...

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Estate agent's 'have a go' bravery commended in court
Saturday 4 February 2012

It is not often that an estate agent gets commended in court, so congratulations to ‘have a go’ hero Sam Woodward. The Birmingham agent was praised after he tackled a mugger who had just knocked an 82-year-old woman to the ground and grabbed her handbag...

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Countrywide's Sotheby's brand opens second London office
Saturday 4 February 2012

Countrywide’s Sotheby’s International Realty brand has opened its second London office, in Chelsea. The new office will work alongside its Mayfair office, which opened in 1998, to increase its coverage of the capital and respond to the international market’s demand for prime luxury property in fashionable Chelsea, Kensington, Fulham and Knightsbridge...

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Property Place founder says sorry after 'no one likes estate agents' headline
Saturday 4 February 2012

The founder of the first Facebook app to market property has issued an abject apology to agents after finding itself at the centre of a row over a press release which said in its headline that ‘No one likes Estate Agents’...

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Hunters boss says ending Stamp Duty break would make FTBs 'extinct'
Saturday 4 February 2012

The boss of Hunters estate agents – which, since its acquisition of the Bairstow Eves franchised businesses from Countrywide, has become the largest independent estate agency franchise operator in the UK – is calling on the Government to delay reintroducing Stamp Duty for properties under £250,000...

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New warnings on homes in flood areas
Saturday 4 February 2012

New warnings have been issued about properties at risk of flooding which could be both uninsurable and un-mortgageable within months. It follows a damning report from a group of MPs into the state of Britain’s flood defences...

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