Cash-strapped Countrywide has this morning announced that it is selling its commercial business, Lambert Smith Hampton, for £38m. In a surprise statement - after Countrywide insisted many times in recent years that none of its divisions would be sold - this morning the company described LSH as "non-core” and said the... Source: Estate Agent...
November 2019
A new portal has been launched aiming to take on Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket in the retirement property sector - and it wants agents to list appropriate properties. The Retiremove portal has just launched with its content editor - respected retirement specialist Jane Slade - explaining: “We feel the time is... Source: Estate Agent...
House prices increased 0.5 per cent in November, which was the strongest monthly rise since April according to the Nationwide. However, annual house price growth remained below one per cent for the 12th month in a row at 0.8 per cent. The typical home in the UK now costs £215,734 according to... Source: Estate Agent...
Don’t even think how quickly Christmas has come around again: it’s December 1 on Sunday, so we imagine many offices will be getting in the year-end mood in the next few days. There’s only one thing for it - bring on your office videos and photographs! As in recent years, we’d absolutely... Source: Estate Agent...
A new digital ‘members-only club’ is being launched for property professionals around the world. The Eighth Door is a web and app-based service described by its creators as “connecting people within the industry so they can do business directly, wherever they are in the world, 24 hours a day, seven days... Source: Estate Agent...
He portrays himself as a scourge of the Remoaner elite and a champion of the people, but when it comes to homes Boris Johnson is scarcely the typical person. Back in the spring he listed his London Georgian town house with Chestertons for £3.75m - that’s over 14 times the price... Source: Estate Agent...
It’s beginning to look a lot like…we’re running a very popular service for agents, as we’ve been inundated with more fund-raising information as the industry gears up for Christmas. If you’re doing a Santa run, Helping a local food bank or collecting coats for the homeless - or anything else for... Source: Estate Agent...
A new app is being launched which allows agents to gauge possible interest in a property before it is formally put on the market. This would allow agents, or individuals who could use the app to sell their homes privately, to test the market and create a list of possible buyers,... Source: Estate Agent...
Properties worth a combined £8.1m have been surrendered to the National Crime Agency following a tax probe. The properties included 16 homes in and around Bath plus a villa in Tenerife. The Bath properties included a seven bedroom converted barn and mill which on a holiday lettings website boasted an indoor... Source: Estate Agent...
Homesearch, the data service which launched this year as free-to-use with a subscription model launching in 2020, has announced it’s introducing live market information for users. The service debuted in June and claimed it would offer “game changing” access to property data and market intelligence; the free data is to be... Source: Estate Agent...