Appetite for estate agent qualifications grows despite slow RoPA progress

Lord Best's recommendations, published today, herald a new regime for the property industry, with mandatory qualifications for all estate agents - which could be extended to property developers, managers…

Mr and Mrs Clarke is looking to swell its self-employed ranks and to recruit a new in-house sales manager.

“I must have dealt with more short-term contracts in the last quarter than in any previous three-month period throughout my 30 years in the industry," says the boss of a property recruitment agency.