News Archive

In any successful estate agency, there are three components you need to get right: you have to get the valuations, win the instructions and then sell the properties...

The launch of a new national property portal, to be owned by agents for agents, has received an overwhelming response from the industry...

More high-level concerns have surfaced over the Government’s Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme aimed at people with only 5% deposits...

An estate agent has been charged with 12 counts of fraud. Tim Glasson, 50, of Tim Glasson Estate Agents in Trelowarren Street, Camborne, Cornwall, will appear at Truro Magistrates Court on June 13...

Two members of staff at Clive Emson Auctioneers have been promoted to the board. Ben Snelling and Sam Kinloch join five fellow directors at the expanding firm, which works with a network of 600 estate agency outlets and which has recorded sales of more than £1bn since being founded in 1989 by one of the auction world’s true characters, philanthropist Clive Emson – he genuinely does lots for charity...

As we have said before, we cannot mention all the countless good deeds and charity fundraising events that our big-hearted readers do for good causes...

North-based Hunters has marked its best year in business by taking its top performers on an all-expenses-paid trip to Barcelona...

Fancy your agency being the subject of a TV fly on the wall documentary? The makers of Location, Location, Location are looking for a “charismatic and exciting” firm of estate agents to feature in a new observational-style documentary series...

Thursday 23rd May 2013

A group of top agents are putting together a new national property portal which would be wholly owned by agents themselves and aimed at toppling – or cutting down to size – the duopoly of Rightmove and Zoopla...

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...