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The James Caan-backed estate agency launch of Ivy Gate is being led by three former Your Move senior figures – and is going on a staff-poaching spree...

Guild offers new de-cluttering service

Winkworth has launched into India. It has signed up a master franchisee, Narayanan Soundararajan, and opened in Bangalore...

The Guild of Professional Estate Agents has launched a de-cluttering service with a difference. Sellers using member firms can have their surplus furniture and belongings shipped off site and stored free for four weeks...

RICS overseas trip angers members

Over 92% of Team agents are on the first page of Google – generally in first or second place – when using the most common search criteria...

There is something about world travel that gets up the noses of estate agents and surveyors in this country...

Time is continuing to run out for households living in flood-prone areas. However, while there is no new agreement in sight, the Association of British Insurers has agreed that its members will continue to offer flood insurance for an extra month beyond the end of the current agreement with the Government...

Mortgage lending rose by 4% last month, and by 21% on April last year. But the Council of Mortgage Lenders warned that “meaningful comparisons” with last April are difficult...

Brian Murphy Blog

In recent weeks we have had confirmation from the Chancellor that the Funding for Lending scheme (FLS) is to be extended to 2015...

New records have been set in sellers’ asking prices, Rightmove said this morning. The average asking price of a property new on the market is touching £250,000 for the first time, while in London it has soared past the half a million pound mark for the first time...

PropertyLive, the NFoPP portal which faced abrupt closure early this year before an outcry led to a stay of execution, could have a viable future...

Two former estate agents who carried out a £250,000 property survey fraud have both been sent to jail for 16 months...

Developers who are selling shared-equity homes under the Government’s Help to Buy scheme are advertising them on Rightmove at four-fifths of their real price...

LSL, parent company to Your Move and Reeds Rains, has reported a slow start to the year, with lower transaction levels...

Why should I use an inventory company?

An energy inspector has been sent to prison for 12 months after a VAT fraud. John Cahill, 52, of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, tried to steal £47,000 in fraudulent VAT repayments and was jailed last week as part of HMRC’s crackdown on tax dodgers...

As No Letting Go Inventory Management open their latest operation covering Guildford, you may be asking some obvious questions...

Spicerhaart is dramatically pulling its Fine brand today and replacing it with a new offering called Chewton Rose...

Estate agents across London and the South are reporting a significant spring bounce in the market – but say that lack of stock is a concern...

Properties for sale are having their prices trimmed less often and by lower amounts, Zoopla has reported...

A Law Commission consultation ended yesterday which could see laws protecting home owners’ historical rights to light extinguished for good...