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New agent-owned portal is planned by top names in industry 23 May 13
A group of top agents are putting together a new national property portal which would be wholly owned by agents themselves and aimed at toppling – or cutting down to size – the duopoly of Rightmove and Zoopla. The six founding agents who are behind Agents Mutual have called in former...
Ex-Your Move trio launch new James Caan-backed agency 22 May 13
The James Caan-backed estate agency launch of Ivy Gate is being led by three former Your Move senior figures – and is going on a staff-poaching spree. As well as managing director Jason Tebb – who has also worked for Foxtons and Chesterton Humberts – it has emerged that the other co-founders...
Winkworth launches into India property market 22 May 13
Winkworth has launched into India. It has signed up a master franchisee, Narayanan Soundararajan, and opened in Bangalore. Two more offices, in Chennai and Delhi, are planned for later this year, with the aim of creating a network of franchises across India based on the Winkworth UK model. Soundararajan, a former banker for...
Guild offers new de-cluttering service 22 May 13
The Guild of Professional Estate Agents has launched a de-cluttering service with a difference. Sellers using member firms can have their surplus furniture and belongings shipped off site and stored free for four weeks. The concept was launched at the Guild’s annual conference, when members heard that the new de-clutter service includes...
Team agents enjoy first place on Google status 22 May 13
Over 92% of Team agents are on the first page of Google – generally in first or second place – when using the most common search criteria. Team, whose search engine optimisation programme is run by Resource Techniques, said the figures came to light after it emerged that Dart & Partners in...
RICS overseas trip angers members 22 May 13
There is something about world travel that gets up the noses of estate agents and surveyors in this country. So, when a picture appeared on the RICS’s Facebook page of a load of delegates on what MPs used to call ‘a fact finding tour’ which took them to Washington, it did...
Time still running out for households in flood areas 22 May 13
Time is continuing to run out for households living in flood-prone areas. However, while there is no new agreement in sight, the Association of British Insurers has agreed that its members will continue to offer flood insurance for an extra month beyond the end of the current agreement with the Government. The...
Mortgage lending picks up, says cautious CML 22 May 13
Mortgage lending rose by 4% last month, and by 21% on April last year. But the Council of Mortgage Lenders warned that “meaningful comparisons” with last April are difficult. The CML estimates gross mortgage lending this April to have been £12.1bn. Despite the CML’s caution, last month was the strongest April for...
Brian Murphy Blog 20 May 13
In recent weeks we have had confirmation from the Chancellor that the Funding for Lending scheme (FLS) is to be extended to 2015. This will provide continuity of access to cheap funding for the major lenders and should ensure that the housing and mortgage markets continue their mild but welcome recovery...
Asking prices hit their highest ever, says Rightmove 20 May 13
New records have been set in sellers’ asking prices, Rightmove said this morning. The average asking price of a property new on the market is touching £250,000 for the first time, while in London it has soared past the half a million pound mark for the first time. According to Rightmove, new...
PropertyLive could make a comeback, says NFoPP 20 May 13
PropertyLive, the NFoPP portal which faced abrupt closure early this year before an outcry led to a stay of execution, could have a viable future. It could re-emerge in a completely new guise, says Mark Hayward, the NAEA’s managing director and current president. However, there will be no inkling of its...
Estate agents in survey fraud are sent to prison 20 May 13
Two former estate agents who carried out a £250,000 property survey fraud have both been sent to jail for 16 months. A third has been given a 16-month suspended sentence. The trio, who carried out estate agency work in Cumbria, were sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court. They were Donald Smith, 55, his...
Help to Buy properties advertised at 'misleading' prices 20 May 13
Developers who are selling shared-equity homes under the Government’s Help to Buy scheme are advertising them on Rightmove at four-fifths of their real price. They are slicing off the 20% taxpayer-funded share to make it look, for example, as though a house that is selling for £200,000 has a price tag...
Slow start to the year then things improve, says LSL 20 May 13
LSL, parent company to Your Move and Reeds Rains, has reported a slow start to the year, with lower transaction levels. But, it told shareholders in a trding statement, the situation has since turned around. Turnover in the estate agency division was 2% down in the three months to the end...
