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April
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HIPS
'NOT HELPING THE MARKET' |
HOME Information Packs are not enhancing
the housing market or meeting the original objectives of speeding the buying
process and stopping gazumping, a leading estate agent has claimed... |
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Market
needs a boost — NAEA |
THE National Association
of Estate Agents has renewed its call for interest rates to be cut — and
for the abolition of first day marketing due next month to be reviewed — following
the release of their latest monthly survey of members... |
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A
record year... |
LONDON estate agency
Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward have announced a record year with a turnover of £60
million in 2007 — and hope to expand this year despite what their managing
director readily admits is a tough market...
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Inspirational
Wendy’s fund-raising aim |
WENDY Evans-Scott is celebrating a double
dose of success — as well as being appointed manager of the Banstead branch
of Hamptons International, she has been given the all-clear after a year-long
series of treatments for breast cancer...
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Why
a look back through history assures me I do not expect the market to crash! |
HAVING run into
a degree of flak of late, I thought that this month I would look at an even more
contentious question – the future of the market, price-wise! ...
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Green
homes — media hype or a serious issue? |
GONE are the days when the only people to
care about ‘green’ issues and environmentally-friendly living were ‘sandal
wearing, tree hugging hippies’! ... |
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March
2008 |
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DARLING'S
DUTY TO BOOST MARKET |
THE
NATIONAL Association of Estate Agents are calling on Chancellor of the Exchequer
Alistair Darling to use this month’s Budget to ease the immediate... |
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Rightmove
and LSL results reassure |
BOTH
Rightmove and LSL Property Services issued reassuring figures when they reported
their full year profits for 2007 at the end of February... |
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Humberts
announce £17 million loss |
THE
troubled Humberts Group unveiled a £17 million loss and revealed plans
to ask
shareholders for more funds and the possibility of selling some ‘non core’ assets...
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Dump
the junk! |
A
LONDON estate agency have publicly declared that they will never again send out
flyers or touting letters...
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Year
off to promising start: NAEA |
Increase
in first-time buyer numbers for fourth month running, claims new survey
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CEOs
go amid portal changes |
THE
chief executives of the Primelocation and FindaProperty internet portals are leaving
their posts in the wake of a reshuffle of operations at the Daily Mail group... |
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Agency
launches first-time buyer month |
AN
estate agency is specifically aiming to persuade first-timers that maybe the housing
market isn't such a difficult proposition for them, after all...
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February
2008 |
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NEW
MINISTER IN FIRST DAY STORM |
NEWLY-appointed
Housing Minister Caroline Flint has walked straight into a growing storm
over plans to change the regulations governing Home Information Packs... |
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Changes
at top as Humberts feel pinch |
CHIEF
Executive Max Ziff and executive chairman Tim James have departed as the 80-office
Humberts Group has not only fallen victim to last month’s Stock Market... |
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No
real sign yet of any 'slump effect' |
THE
doom-mongers have been forecasting office closures on the back of a slump in
business for some time now — but there is little sign of that scenario
yet.
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Meet
your OPG Web Partners! |
THE
Pay As You Go websites available from EAN’s parent company the Oldroyd
Publishing Group are proving extremely popular — and no wonder.
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Are
we soon to see the final demise of ‘caveat emptor’? |
HOME
Information Packs may be in a mess but I fear the new Money Laundering Regulations
could be even worse!...
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Goad-en
anniversary celebrations! |
THE
Goadsby estate agency, with 26 offices across Central Southern England, are celebrating
their 50th anniversary — and, in addition to hosting a number of events... |
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December
2007/January 2008 |
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November
2007 |
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October
2007 |
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'STAND
BY FOR A TOUGH SPRING!' |
COUNTRYWIDE
plc, the UK’s largest estate agency with more than 1,000 offices,
is warning of a tough spring for estate agency in 2008... |
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HIPs
'not to blame for drop' |
A
LEADING estate agency claims that the advent of Home Information Packs has
coincided with a 15 per cent drop in property stock levels across the UK... |
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Agents'
high street future called into question in new survey |
A
NEW survey suggests the future for estate agents may not be on the high
street...
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Don't
knock the Rock! |
THERE
is no doubt about this month’s excitement — Northern Rock has been
dicing with death. Except it wasn’t. |
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Vebra
owners take over Core |
THE
Guardian Media Property Services Group, which already owns Vebra, GMW
and the Think Property website, has acquired Core Estates Limited...
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Foxtons
in trouble Stateside |
FOXTONS
North America, now a separate company from Foxtons UK, has fallen
victim to the US housing crisis and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
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Lets
diversify! |
More
agents could move into rentals as market slows down, claims survey... |
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September
2007 |
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August
2007 |
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HIPS: DEBATE GOES RIGHT TO THE WIRE |
Lords debate defeat
for Packs as introduction date for four-bedroom properties
looms... |
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Tesco storm — ‘Let’s stick together!’ |
A
LEADING estate agent has made a rallying call to the industry in the wake of
the supermarket giant Tesco launching its own property website... |
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Redress —‘still
key issues to address’ |
THE National Association
of Estate Agents has welcomed the news that the Consumers, Estate Agents and
Redress Bill has now received Royal Assent...
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NAEA’s
plea over interest rates |
THE National Association
of Estate Agents have made a plea to the Bank of England
to “seriously consider the potentially adverse effect” of any further... |
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The
plight of the first time buyer... |
MORE than two thirds of first-time buyers are having to move further out of town,
or to a less desirable area, in order to be able to afford their first property... |
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Ready,
Teddy — go! |
FORMER England striker
Teddy Sheringham will be kicking off the new football
season wearing the colours of Europe’s largest independent estate...
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July
2007 |
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HIPS: ‘CHAOS
WILL REIGN’ |
HOME Information
Packs — due to come into effect on August 1 for
properties with four or more bedrooms — could lead to widespread... |
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Portals'
firm stand on Tesco site |
RIGHTMOVE have been
quick to move to protect the interests of their estate
agent members — as well as their own position at the country's... |
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Growing OEA scheme tops 10,000 landmark |
THERE has been a
rapid and substantial increase in the number of residential estate agency offices
in England and Wales covered by...
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£42
billion budget busters |
BRITONS collectively overspend by a whopping £42 BILLION when buying
a new property, according to new research... |
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Rental demand outstrips supply |
DEMAND for rented
properties seriously outstripped supply and rent levels
rose during the three months to the end of May according to the... |
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Connells:
3i link ‘groundless’ |
CONNELLS have strongly
refuted speculation that the 3i Group offered to buy the Group after losing out
to Apollo in the bid battle for Countrywide...
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June
2007 |
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May
2007 |
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April
2007 |
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