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A property expert has warned against bans on second home sales and has suggested giving local buyers first refusal instead. It comes after...
21 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Let no one say agents aren't imaginative, creative and entertaining - or at least no one can say that about Maxine...
14 December 2021
From: Breaking News
There is pressure growing in Brighton for the city to hold a referendum giving residents the opportunity to ban new build...
19 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Kevin Thomas, the long time director at Thomas Morris Sales & Lettings, is retiring from the industry after more than 40...
02 August 2021
From: Breaking News
One of the country’s most popular tourist destinations may ban the sale of new builds to second home buyers. The council in Padstow -...
02 February 2021
From: Breaking News
What’s the happiest place in Britain? Rightmove has the answer. In a new ‘Happy At Home’ index calculated by the portal and...
25 November 2020
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Another west country tourist hotspot looks set to ban any future new-build home being sold as a holiday or additional property. Bigbury...
21 April 2020
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Another westcountry town may ban new-build homes being sold as holiday properties, even though the idea has backfired elsewhere. Fowey in Cornwall -...
26 February 2020
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You are an enterprising lot! Today we’ve got two fantastic Christmas videos from agents who’ve kindly responded to our call for...
04 December 2019
From: Breaking News
A new study by the London School of Economics suggests that a high profile ban on the sale of new homes...
05 November 2019
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A bid to ban the building of new homes for out-of-town buyers has backfired on a Cornish community - and now...
24 July 2019
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There’s been a landslide vote to ban new-build second homes in another tourist hotspot. Some 90 per cent of those who voted...
19 June 2018
From: Breaking News
Holiday home sales in one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations are holding up, despite stamp duty and the age...
29 March 2018
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With the year in full swing we have some more heroic fund-raising and grant-giving stories to tell this week. Thanks so much...
19 January 2018
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This might just be one of the busiest Agents Do Charity columns we’ve ever had with many firms having a mixture...
19 May 2017
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Two more local referendums have, as expected, agreed neighbourhood plans which ban the sale of new-build homes to anyone other than...
08 May 2017
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Residents in two parts of Cornwall will vote tomorrow on whether to join the holiday resort of St Ives in banning...
03 May 2017
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A solicitor has asked how the ban on the sale of new-build apartments and houses to holiday home buyers in a...
18 November 2016
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The result of a referendum in a tourist hotspot seeking a ban on the sale of new-build flats and houses to...
11 November 2016
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A key decision that may have far-reaching implications for the sale of holiday homes has been delayed by a High Court...
10 October 2016
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Next week sees a court case which will decide whether there will have to be a re-run of the ‘second homes...
29 September 2016
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The highest number of second homes in UK local authority areas exist not in the south west, the Lake District or...
12 September 2016
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There is likely to be an October court date set for a judicial review into a ban on new-build houses and...
11 August 2016
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A report says agents in the Cornish holiday home haven of St Ives admit the local market has been hit by...
04 August 2016
From: Breaking News
With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...
15 July 2016
From: Features
The MP who pledged his support to a campaign against portal juggling has now submitted an application for a Westminster Hall...
31 May 2016
From: Breaking News
A judicial review into the process surrounding the controversial 'second homes referendum' in St Ives means the result could, in theory,...
10 May 2016
From: Breaking News
A Conservative MP is to raise the portal juggling controversy in the House of Commons. Derek Thomas, MP for St Ives in...