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Housing minister Dominic Raab took to Twitter to make a Trump-style criticism of trade magazine The Negotiator and its editor, the respected property journalist Nigel Lewis. The Neg yesterday ran a story, based on a press release from 10 Downing Street, about the inaugural meeting of the Housing Implementation Taskforce. This was… Source: Estate Agent […]
Most listed agencies and portals suffered share price falls yesterday, creating a challenging landscape for Agents’ Mutual which launches on the London stock exchange on Friday. Yesterday Countrywide dropped more than seven per cent, taking its share price well below the point when former chief executive Alison Platt left the organisation at the end… Source: Estate Agent News
I had an interesting meeting last week with a VR company called Garou. Based in New York, they claim to have created the most realistic and immersive VR platform for the property industry. It’s pretty impressive, and I’ll go into it in more detail, including my helicopter ride, later. But it got… Source: Estate Agent […]
A law firm says the problems with housing transactions lie not with issues like fall-throughs but with “people’s general lack of understanding of how the conveyancing system works.” Jonathan Williams, a partner specialising in property law at Roythornes Solicitors operating in the Midlands and across East Anglia, says these issues will… Source: Estate Agent News
Latest figures suggest there are only 1,850 apprentices employed in the entire property sector, suggesting an even smaller number in the specific fields of estate and letting agencies. The data, analysed by recruitment company Property Personnel, shows that in 2015/2016 (the latest information available) only 610 apprentices under the age of… Source: Estate Agent News
NAEA Propertymark is to introduce bursaries designed to support novice staff deemed to be showing exceptional potential to attend the association’s annual conference. The association says this is part of an ongoing commitment to support new entrants to the industry; it wants agents to put themselves forward, or get a colleague… Source: Estate Agent News