News Archive

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...

Tuesday 21st February 2012

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...

Blaze shuts down estate agent's office

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...

White Labelled Property Management

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...