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Asking prices static as spring market loses momentum     Bargain hunters snap up cheap properties at auction     Property fraudster is jailed after fleecing his own mother     Rightmove defends the way it calculates market share     Agent hits out at Digital answering service    

Asking prices of properties new to the market have not risen in May – and this is the first time in a decade that this has happened. Rightmove says it is unique in the 11 years that it has been in existence that new sellers in May have not raised their asking prices, and it warned that the market has lost its traditional spring momentum earlier than usual...

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Bargain hunters snap up cheap properties at auction
Monday 21 May 2012

A total of 1,479 homes were sold at auctions in April. The collective amount raised was £149m, so each residential property went for an average of just over £100,000...

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Property fraudster is jailed after fleecing his own mother
Monday 21 May 2012

Notorious property fraudster David Watmuff has been jailed for three and a half years after stealing from his own mother. He was sentenced at Newcastle in the name of David Kelso...

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Rightmove defends the way it calculates market share
Monday 21 May 2012

Rightmove has robustly defended the way its market share is calculated after an agent accused the site of pulling the wool over agents’ and investors’ eyes...

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Agent hits out at Digital answering service
Monday 21 May 2012

The Digital Property Group has defended its telephone answering service for agents after one said he knew nothing about it until an angry customer complained that he had left messages which had not been returned...

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Valuations firm explains its calls to agents
Monday 21 May 2012

A company called Express Valuations has tried to clear up the mystery of its persistent phone calls to estate agents. The firm says that it is putting together data from agents on house prices for a monthly report, bought by the likes of asset managers and developers with part-exchange properties...

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Ombudsman passed membership database to Yellow Pages
Monday 21 May 2012

The Property Ombudsman released – and apparently gave away – its database of estate agents to Yellow Pages six years ago. The deal, which ended last year, materialised only this week after agent Trevor Kent was sent an email by Yell inviting him to advertise, and offering an exclusive deal available only to TPO members...

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Agent scolded for suggesting money better in property than a bank
Monday 21 May 2012

An advert which suggested that people would do better to put their money into bricks and mortar than keep it in the bank has landed an estate agent in trouble...

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Call for Government to introduce lending targets as euro crisis worsens
Monday 21 May 2012

Countrywide, the UK’s largest estate agent and mortgage broker, has called for the Government to introduce mortgage lending targets. The call, by financial services director Nigel Stockton, follows warnings from the Bank of England that mortgage rates are set to rise...

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Monday 21 May 2012

The results of the recent Great North Property Auction (GNPA) held on the night of May 15th at the Ramside Hall Hotel in Co Durham have been announced and the event concluded in style with yet another successful night...

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Monday 21 May 2012

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Monday 21 May 2012

Last month Richard Knight, Director of Estate Agency Recruitment firm Zara Lewis was invited to an event for a selected number of small business owners hosted by Theo Paphitis in Birmingham...

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Monday 21 May 2012

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