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Property indices have been friend and foe to estate agents over the years, but the recent turbulent market has created sharp contradictions which have caused me on many occasions to question their reliability and accuracy...
Allagents, the highly controversial self-styled ‘trip advisor’ review site for estate agents, is to publish league tables of the top 500 and worst 500 agents in the UK, based on what the site insists is entirely genuine customer feedback...
New figures from HMRC appear to suggest the extent to which first-time buyers are ramping up the property market in an attempt to beat the March 24 deadline for the end of the Stamp Duty exemption...
We’ve heard of houses being offered in raffles, top-of-the-range cars being given away with houses, and even, on one occasion, a luxury cow being given away with a cottage (a Jersey, since you ask, let’s say no moo)...
Stock levels in prime central London are down by 25% on last year, say Cluttons – resulting in ‘extraordinary’ levels of competition...
An estate agent’s adverts which said it had become the leading agent in its area were reported to the advertising watchdog after a competitor complained...
LetMC.com, lettings software supplier for the UK, has won the prestigious contract to supply software to Arun Estates...
In a burst of optimism, new sellers have raised their asking prices by 4.1% – the highest monthly increase since April 2002, and some £70,000 ahead of current actual selling prices...
Rightmove, which is due to announce its results on Friday after a 71% net profit margin last year, has announced record traffic in January, propelling it to seventh place in the chart of most page-viewed websites in the UK...
A valuations subsidiary of Spicerhaart is being put into liquidation because of escalating claims against it by ‘ambulance chasers’ – even though it ceased trading five years ago...
House prices have not recovered to 2007 boom levels anywhere in the UK apart from in just two local authority areas...
Conveyancers have been put on red alert not to become involved in Stamp Duty avoidance schemes – for example, where residential property deals are structured to avoid the tax...
A man has been charged following a fire at the New Romney office of Andrew & Co in Kent. The blaze, early last Friday morning, has damaged the building so badly that staff have had to shut up shop...
ARPM has worked hard over the years to build its brand, and the qualities and characteristics associated to it that make ARPM special and we know our clients are no different...
Claims by an auction house that it sold 89% of lots at its last sale have been challenged, on the grounds that the sales were all subject to contract...
Property Place, the Facebook app for property sales, says it is recruiting at the rate of ten agents a day...
The NAEA has told the Government to stop being so stubborn about the Stamp Duty break for first-time buyers, after HSBC said nine in ten FTBs had not paid the tax since the exemption began two years ago...
Average house prices increased by 0.4% in December, taking the average price to £205,269. The Communities and Local Government ‘official’ house price index showed average prices decreased by 1...
The team behind property portal Radar Homes has announced a busy schedule of local visits to meet agents and talk about the business...
The Council of Mortgage Lenders is calling for the Stamp Duty break for first-time buyers to be extended beyond March 24 amidst fears of a spring slump...
Two former Bairstow Eves franchisees have moved over to Winkworth. The two offices are in Cheam, and Worcester Park, both on the edge of Greater London...
Asking prices for homes in England and Wales have risen 0.5% since the start of the year, despite ‘poor market fundamentals’...
Spicerhaart is on a recruitment drive to expand its call centre at its headquarters in Colchester...
Zoopla has announced a commitment to raise at least £25,000 for Shelter this year. As part of the fund-raising, Zoopla employees have agreed to donate £7,500 via payroll giving, while some will be attempting Shelter’s annual Vertical Rush next month, which involves scaling the 920 steps of Tower 42 in the City...
Have old fashioned applicants disappeared? Do you still get people calling to say "please register me, I've just started to look"? We've got some fascinating figures on this from across our 1200 member branches, who between August and November had: · 209,000 applicant registrations · 105,000 of which have made one or more viewing appointments · Of that 105,000, over 90% booked a viewing at registration time...
Cashflow has become king and mortgages a less dominant feature of the housing market, with most sales now financed by equity...
Housing minister Grant Shapps has announced a £20m fund for local housing authorities which they can use to help people facing repossession...
Fine & Country is to launch a global Fine & Country Golf brand, to market property in elite golf developments around the world...
Auction House is to premiere its first auction of the year in a north London cinema. The organisation has chosen the Everyman Cinema in Belsize Park as the venue for its February 22 sale...
Twon anti-Home Information Pack petitions on the Downing Street website are to be part of an academic research project...
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- David Pollock: Blog........
- Allagents starts to spill beans on Best and Worst 500 agents........
- Taxman suggests FTB uplift as sales levels rise........
- House buyer will get all money back if football club wins promotion........
- Central London stock levels dive 25% as buyers slug it out........
- Agent's website claim to be 'leading' unproven, says advertising watchdog........
- Sellers raise asking prices in biggest hike for ten years........
- Rightmove overtakes BBC in Top Ten portals list........
- Spicerhaart valuations firm goes into liquidation........
- House prices back to boom levels in only two places........
- LetMC is proud to provide software to Arun Estates........
- White Labelled Property Management ........
- Have old fashioned applicants disappeared?........
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