Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great opportunity to look back to see how things were. If you’re going to choose a good year to launch an estate agency publication...well, 2008 probably wasn’t it. This was, after all,... Source: Estate Agent...
June 2018
One of the country’s best know estate agents, Marc Goldberg, has joined London agency Dexters. Goldberg spent some 30 years at Countrywide’s high-end brand Hamptons International, leaving the company almost exactly two years ago at the height of the rule of Counrywide’s former chief executive, Alison Platt. Goldberg had been head of... Source: Estate Agent...
Here’s our third England World Cup match report prepared by a reader - and it’s another terrific review...perhaps more interesting than a few parts of the game itself! The latest reviewer is Peter Gregg, branch manager of Rowcliffes Estate Agents at Chapel-en-le-Frith. It’s the largest independent agent in the High Peak... Source: Estate Agent...
Hometrack says other cities are now closing the gap on London in terms of house prices and market value. The latest Hometrack UK Cities House Price Index reveals house prices are rising faster in Edinburgh and Manchester - up 7.1 and 7.0 per cent respectively - than in any other major UK... Source: Estate Agent...
In what is regarded as his most important speech since becoming housing minister, Dominic Raab has told a conference that it is the government’s aim to increase the supply of new homes to make the market more affordable. Addressing the Chartered Institute of Housing in Manchester yesterday, Raab made a speech... Source: Estate Agent...
Boy it‘s hot out there, with little end in sight yet. That’s the good news. Now the even better news - our industry still has enough energy to do good work for the community. We’ve got more heartwarming stories this week, but we always want more. Please send us details of... Source: Estate Agent...
A leading digital analyst says online agency Yopa has doubled its listings this year and is fighting the merged Emoov-Tepilo operation to be number two to Purplebricks. “One can imagine that the business is spending big to acquire new customers, so it is unlikely to be sustainable or profitable. But it... Source: Estate Agent...
The UK arm of the US-based estate agency Keller Williams says it is making a specific bid to recruit more women and men with childcare responsibilities. In an interview with Estate Agent Today, KW’s managing director in the UK - former Countrywide senior manager Ben Taylor - says his new company’s... Source: Estate Agent...
The vast majority of estate agents say dressing a property for sale improves its chances of a sale by leaving a better impression on prospective purchasers viewing it. It’s been widely recognised that ‘home staging’ - dressing a property left empty by a vendor - improves the chances for sale. Now a... Source: Estate Agent...
Chestertons has announced two changes to its management team in order to, in its own words, “help lead the business into the next exciting stage of its development.” Former chief executive Allan Collins has stepped into the role of deputy chairman of Chesterton Global and Guy Gittins, previously head of sales,... Source: Estate Agent...