News Archive
LSL, owners of national chains Your Move and Reeds Rains, is upping its presence in London where it owns Marsh & Parsons and Lauristons...
Software provider VTUK has recruited a leading industry figure, Clare Yates, as its national sales manager...
Throughout the private rental sector, there remains confusion as to whether unfurnished properties require an Inventory or whether it is just an unnecessary expense...
Our conference on May 16th of this year will centre on driving real value into your business. Using classic PEST and SWOT analysis tools to review the property market and scan the horizon, our speakers, all prominent in their fields, will map out current trends and emerging systems, technologies and processes...
It’s a tale of two property cities. London’s property boom has radiated out, reaching once-unfashionable parts outside the traditional prime central area, but which are now themselves regarded as prime...
Home owners are expecting house prices to rise by 4.5% over the next six months, according to new research from Zoopla...
Mortgage approvals by high street banks for house purchase nudged up in March to stand at 31,227. The news came as the Government announced extending its Funding for Lending Scheme, but diverting it towards small businesses – a move which one critic described as risky for the mortgage market...
A youth homelessness charity Depaul UK has launched a new business, selling cardboard boxes to home movers...
Delegates attending the myhomemove conference last week at the Heritage Motor Centre in Warwickshire raised £7,000 for the Estate Agency Foundation...
The most surprising aspect about the estate agent who woke to find an intruder trying to get into his house was not that the police weren’t interested (they let him go), but the role of his dog...
Kremer Signs have been market leaders for supplying estate agency boards & signage for almost 30 years to the UK property market and have seen designs drawn out on the back of cigarette boxes, through to 50 page document on brand guidelines for top design agencies...
Hundreds of people who bought homes in recent years are being pursued for extra money after their Stamp Duty was apparently based on purchase prices that were mis-stated to the taxman by their conveyancers...
A new US-style realtor is due to be launched next month, with backing from James Caan. Ivy Gate is the brainchild of British estate agent Jason Tebb, who was with Your Move until February, and before that was with Chesterton Humberts and Foxtons...
Rich – and naïve – foreigners are being lured to buy new homes in London in a ‘feeding frenzy’, it has been claimed...
Apparently, the estate agent doesn’t even always bother to open. And Brits who own homes there sound desperate – not to mention up the creek without the proverbial paddle...
There are no plans to reform the house buying process in England and Wales, housing minister Mark Prisk has said...
Auction House has appointed Martin Cunningham as head of sales. Cunningham, 47, has 27 years’ experience in the property industry – including time as a financial adviser, and as an estate agent within Countrywide’s Abbotts and Bairstow Eves brands...
The 95% mortgage scheme being launched under the Help to Buy flag in January could have serious and unintended consequences, MPs have warned...
Kings Group proved that the only way is Essex, when it pulled off an astonishing coup with its Harlow office named as the best estate agent in the UK while also scooping silver for its Walthamstow office just up the road in east London...
The Council of Mortgage Lenders has come under fire after issuing upbeat data which grabbed headlines but which critics say is misleading...







