The founder of Zoopla has returned to the property market with a new proposal to disrupt how agents buy and sell homes. Alex Chesterman has now made three seven-figure investments in Thirdfort, which describes itself as a 'digital onboarding platform.' FCA regulated Thirdfort is a web and mobile app that combines PropTech elements Open... Source: Estate Agent...
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One of the industry’s leading consultants has calculated staff turnover rates at the country’s leading estate agencies. Christopher Watkin, the consultant who is well known for his video interviews with leading industry figures as well as his primary work helping letting agents win more business, has compiled the league table of turnover... Source: Estate Agent...
An estate agency has apologised after a bogus employee posted offensive comments about Prince Philip on a newly-created fake Facebook account. This is not the first attack on the samer agency via fake Facebook activity; it comes just a day after we reported that the Competition and Markets Authority had pushed Facebook into... Source: Estate Agent...
Another property company has announced its participation in the Kickstart scheme. The initiative is aimed at young people aged 16 to 24 currently are receiving Universal Credit and at risk of long-term unemployment. The government will pay their basic salary for 25 hours a week, augmented by an employer. Leeds-based property investment... Source: Estate Agent...
A leading agency claims the stamp duty holiday has actually had a minimal impact in the mainstream market, despite many suggestions to the contrary. Using OnTheMarket data, Knight Frank says that last month - March - there was a 30 per cent rise in the number of properties going under offer... Source: Estate Agent...
One in three property sales in England and Wales fell through before completion in the first quarter of 2021. The 32 per cent fall through figure comes from Quick Move Now, a quick sale company. The figure is 15 per cent higher than the fall-through rate in the last quarter of 2020,... Source: Estate Agent...
Today is the day that non-essential retail reopens as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown. For the majority of the population, the priority will be to organise a haircut to tame those lockdown locks. However, for those of us with a professional interest in the property market, the reopening of... Source: Estate Agent...
The ESTAS Group has named a new headline sponsor for its 2021 Forum and Awards, taking over from Zoopla with immediate effect. It’s the PropTech supplier Coadjute, which promotes the use of Blockchain to make house moving easier - the supplier claims sales complete up to 50 per cent quicker. And as part of... Source: Estate Agent...
The Competition and Markets Authority says it has pushed Facebook into taking new action to combat fake reviews - an issue that has been highlighted by estate agencies in the past. A year ago this month the Minors & Brady agency in Norfolk received a Facebook message saying it would be... Source: Estate Agent...
The Chancellor’s decision to extend the stamp duty holiday has “put a spring in the step" of the housing market according to the Halifax. The lender - Britain’s largest - says there’s been a “resurgence” in market activity in recent weeks, with the average house price 6.5 per cent higher than... Source: Estate Agent...