Estate agents’ offices will be in the first category of High Street premises to reopen when the lockdown finally ends, newspapers claim this morning. Although there is… Read More »Good News: Estate agents’ offices will be first to reopen says newspaper
Agents Jobs At Risk: furlough scheme must be longer says industry chief A high number of agents across the country have been furloughed in… Read More »Agents Jobs At Risk: furlough scheme must be longer says industry chief
Searches: councils slammed as dangerous over face-to-face visits A trade body has reported some council search departments to the government for refusing to provide… Read More »Searches: councils slammed as dangerous over face-to-face visits
The controversial Help To Buy scheme looks likely to be expanded in breadth and extended in duration to help kick-start the housebuilding industry after the… Read More »Love it or loathe it? Help To Buy to be beefed up after lockdown
Two agents have quit Rightmove and taken to social media to give their reasons.
On April 4, EAT published a piece titled: ‘It’s 2024: what will the industry look like, post corona-virus’. To me, this was a completely irrelevant article and there was simply no point in reading it – although well over 3,500 of you have done so.
What is thought to be the first survey of sellers since the start of the Coronavirus outbreak suggests that they anticipate a five-month delay to their plans.
Landlords are eligible for three-month mortgage payment holidays But should you offer tenants who are working from home a payment holiday? Does offering a rent… Read More »How to keep your buy-to-let afloat AND help tenants in the lockdown: From rent cuts to mortgage holidays?
The government has amended the eligibility criteria and will allow some agents’ commission payments to be included in claims for Furloughed Pay.
One of the industry’s highest profile figures has suggested the Coronavirus crisis could trigger many more agents becoming self-employed. Nicky Stevenson – well known as… Read More »Virus crisis will drive more agents to become self-employed – claim
