A new estate agency Code of Practice is to be written by a group set up by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and The Property Ombudsman. It will be led by a Labour peer and… Code of Practice for Estate Agents set to change industry forever
Homesearch, the long-awaited new free-to-list portal, launches today with a string of testimonials from supportive estate agents. The new portal announced at the end of last week that it had secured over 10,000 agents signing… Homesearch portal launches with two-week feedback period for agents
Buyer demand for new-build property has bounced back 66 per cent in the six weeks since the resumption of the housing market according to research from Zoopla.
In the latest of a recent flurry of consumer-facing research exercises by Rightmove, a league table of the most popular seaside towns has been drawn up – and entries are not all in the traditional tourist spots of the south west.
There is an unscrupulous element within the Estate Agency business who cynically and calculatedly exploit people by misleading them about the value of their most valuable asset, their home.
Estate agents are likely to get through the next five to six months even if the market falls away – but November is most likely the critical month.
Data released this morning by Rightmove suggests that agents in England have agreed no fewer than 40,000 sales since the market reopened little more than four weeks ago.
The housing market in Northern Ireland is resuming on Monday after its lockdown because of the Coronavirus crisis.
Today is one month since the government lifted restrictions on agents and the housing market – and since that time the largest increase in business has been for mortgages.
Rupert and Annabel Wakley – both long-time stalwarts of Knight Frank’s country department – have moved over to the rival Jackson-Stops agency.
