News Archive
London agents have been telling of their busiest day ever. In the hours after the Budget, deals were both clinched and fell through, and small fortunes in commissions were won and lost...
Estate agents are advising people against using HSBC because of its decision to cut its conveyancing panel to just 42 firms, the Law Society has claimed...
A new event for estate agents and letting agents opens its doors on April 19 and 20. The Property Business Show will run side by side with the well-established Property Investor Show, which attracts landlords and residential property investors from all over the UK as well as overseas...
The Electoral Commission wants to enlist the help of estate agents, to remind buyers to register to vote or even giving them electoral registration forms...
Here are two more contenders for Britain’s loveliest estate agency office. First up is the charming office in Reigate, Surrey, of James Dean, all mellow red brick and lovely casement windows...
It’s a common misconception that when businesses outsource their pre-tenancy administration and property management that they give away their potential income streams...
We speak to Brendan Hegarty, Head of Sky Communal TV Solutions and Independent Retailers, about the business and the digital switch over...
The hike in Stamp Duty to 7% for properties over £2m has provoked mixed reactions. Some heaved a sigh of relief, saying it was better than a Mansion Tax, others said it could affect the entire property market, and some said its impact would be negligible...
iam-sold, a white labelled property auction management provider, have seen a huge demand for the new Modern Method of Auction service...
Amanda Wilson is sales director of one of the several new – and controversial – estate agency review sites...
Major concerns have been raised about people’s privacy and security threats to empty properties because, barring a U-turn, ‘redacted’ domestic EPCs will not be allowed...
Amid mounting speculation that the proposed merger between the Digital property portals and Zoopla will be referred to the Competition Commission, the OFT said yesterday that it had still not made a decision...
The RICS has called on the Government to stop turning a blind eye to what is going on in the property sector...
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has confirmed it is investigating a number of claims for compensation against a legal firm specialising in conveyancing that it closed down ten months ago...
Mortgage Advice Bureau, which operates out of estate agency offices, has completed the acquisition of former rival Mortgage Talk, in exchange for shares in the MAB group...
Did you know that trains have EPCs? This, in the ‘you couldn’t make it up category’, is proof – if it were needed – that the world may have gone clinically insane...
What House? digital magazine. Conceived by specialist new homes portal http://www.whathouse.co.ukand launching the week commencing 19th March 2012, this monthly publication will be sent initially to some 600,000 house-hunters who are considering purchasing a brand new home...
Mid West Displays have proudly supplied brand new window displays to Reeds Rains in Nantwich. The windows feature A4 portrait and A3 landscape Bevelled Edge Light Panels...
As the mortgage and property expert for BBC Radio Somerset, I was asked to voice my opinion/concern about the possibility of a future repossession boom...
In the wake of Peter Bolton King’s resignation as chief executive of NFoPP on Friday – the same day that the Archbishop of Canterbury and Hector Sants, head of the Financial Services Authority, also gave notice – questions about the future of the body itself have been raised...







