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With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...

As we know, the property market in London is notorious for sitting a long way outside the conventions of the wider UK...

Predicting ho­­w the housing market might play out over the next few months is incredibly difficult. There are a significant number...

Shepherd Direct Limited - best known for owning the Century 21 UK franchise business which has 50 operators across England -...

You might recall a collective sigh of relief emitted by stakeholders in the housing market and private rental sector back in...

It’s hard not to have been influenced by the Rugby World Cup over the past month and a half – while...

Despite seeing the word in many industry pieces, using ‘crisis’ to describe anything related to the UK housing market at present...

How do you best sum up the current market status quo? Given the specific regional nature of the housing market in...

Consider the scene. It is July 8th and new Chancellor, Ed Balls, stands at the Dispatch Box giving his first Budget...

Given that I wrote my last article on the day of the General Election but well before the result was known,...

Shepherd Direct, the UK operator of Century 21 estate agency franchises, has bought a minority stake in Stonebridge Group, the mortgage...

I write this article on the day of the General Election so you’ll forgive the political analogies. In particular, how any...