Hybrid estate agency YOPA has launched a recruitment campaign suggesting that agents have “the chance to make between £6k and £12k per month.” YOPA has arguably been less high profile than fellow-hybrid Purplebricks in recent months but the agency - now enjoying a TV advertising campaign featuring Village People - this month... Source: Estate Agent...
May 2017
It has been announced that Uber, the taxi company, has teamed up with build to rent firm, Moda Living, to ‘revolutionise renting’. This is the first time that we have seen such a partnership in the UK. To quote the press release: ‘Uber and Moda Living...have announced a proptech tie up to cut car... Source: Estate Agent...
Vigilant followers of the Liberal Democrats may have spotted a blog in the name of Mark Pack early yesterday morning, commenting on a fake estate agency to be unveiled by the party. It’s name? May and Co. Perhaps predictably, it was a mock agency created to publicise what the Lib Dems and... Source: Estate Agent...
The number of house hunters registered per estate agency branch fell last month to 381 - well down on its figure of 425 at the start of the year. The National Association of Estate Agents, which compiled the figures, suggests this is down to the General Election. Supply also fell in April;... Source: Estate Agent...
New research gives an insight into the difficulties that older home owners have coping with their properties - and highlights the issues that eventually lead them to move. The research, in the form of a poll of 2,009 over-65s undertaken by polling firm Consensuswide for the Independent Age charity, reveals that... Source: Estate Agent...
A website now marketing 380,000 homes from 900 agents across the world has struck a deal with an international property referral firm and claims the combined result will allow them to become “a global version of Rightmove” listing over three million homes for sale. The World Property Network, which markets its... Source: Estate Agent...
Zoopla has been reported as saying hybrid estate agencies will not reach their professed targets of achieving 10 per cent of the market share in the next two to three years, nor their longer term ambition of 15 per cent in the next five years. The City consultancy Jefferies, which has... Source: Estate Agent...
The latest measure of house price rises in key UK cities by the property consultancy Hometrack shows house price in many of the urban areas in its review to be well below the level at this time last year - with London seeing by far the lowest growth. Its 20-city price... Source: Estate Agent...
The Conservative and Labour party manifestos do not go far enough to tackle problems with the leasehold system. That’s the view of Louie Burns, managing director of leasehold enfranchisement specialists, Leasehold Solutions. “It’s encouraging to see that both the Conservatives and Labour are paying attention to some of the problems with leasehold,... Source:...
Barclays Bank has given an optimistic view of the housing market over the next five years, with a prediction that across the UK as a whole prices will rise by 6.1 per cent by the end of 2021 - and in some locations much larger increases. The research uses factors including... Source: Estate Agent...