News Archive

Agents are reminded that as from Monday (April 1), local authorities will have the discretion to charge full Council Tax on empty properties...

House purchasers in Scotland will have to pay more for conveyancing after the Law Society said buyers and lenders can no longer use the same solicitor...

Shares in Savills went down sharply yesterday. The fall of about 7% took the price down to about 535p, below its 52-week high of 608p...

Angels Media, publisher of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today, has set up a new social media wing...

Take your happy clients to valuations

TV presenter Phil Spencer has been made brand ambassador for Zoopla. He will be working on a variety of consumer-facing initiatives covering social media, advice forums and competitions as well as making appearances and speaking at a number of Zoopla-hosted industry events...

Tuesday 26th March 2013

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Kremer Signs have recently supplied new look for sale & to let boards for premier brand, Winkworth Kremer Signs have rebranded many agents across the country and have enjoyed high conversion rate at the start of 2013, with Winkworth being one of the higher profile agents to change their estate agency board designs...

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The Budget, as is generally the case, has been met with mixed reaction depending on where one sits on the political divide...

House prices are being kept up by lack of stock – but affordability appears to be driving new buyers away...

The Help to Buy mortgage indemnity scheme which kicks in next January is expected to raise both house transaction levels and property prices...

House sales leap up as cash is king

Question marks continue to be asked over the Budget initiatives for the housing market, with the launch next January of what have been described as ‘Fannie Mae-style’ government backed mortgages...

There were 85,710 house sales in the UK last month, up from 81,390 in January and a 9.6% rise on February last year...

Staff at Badger Holdings, parent company of Townends and Regents estate agents in the South-East, have raised nearly £80,000 for a children’s hospice...

As talk surfaces of a stock market float for Foxtons, you may have wondered what it would be like to be driven around in one of those foxy little Foxtons cars...

As everyone knows, the Inventory Industry is not regulated, given this, throughout the country there are Inventory providers producing reports to varying different standards, with some choosing to make the decision to apportion blame in their Check-Outs and others choosing not to...

The ministers responsible for housing, Eric Pickles and Mark Prisk, have spoken of their support for the Help to Buy scheme – as criticism of the idea was mounting...

According to Rightmove, 97% of new-build homes currently listed by developers and 93% of resale homes listed by estate agents have an asking price of £600,000 or below...

Foxtons is considering a float on the stock market, six years after its ill-timed acquisition by a US private equity firm...

Zoopla has appointed a big hitter as its chief financial officer. Stephen Morana, who takes up his post next month, joins from Betfair where he was chief financial officer from 2006, and where he has spent the last year as interim CEO...