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Guild halves membership fee; offers free digital tools to help agents through the Covid-19 crisis
The Guild of Property Professionals has followed Rightmove and OnTheMarket, with Coronavirus cost mitigation offers for members.
OnTheMarket follows Rightmove with ‘agent support package’
Property portal introduces a three-month "payment support initiative", offering a third off listing fees for full-price members only.
Show goes on for auction houses via remote bidding
Savills, Allsop and Clive Emson all switch their Spring sales to online-only
Government bans tenant evictions for at least three months
"No renter who has lost income due to coronavirus will be forced out of their home, nor will any landlord face unmanageable debts," says the Housing Secretary.
Scotland’s super-prime market was on a roll in 2019
196 sales were recorded above the £1m mark in Edinburgh last year, reports Savills, a full 35% up on the previous record level set in 2007.
‘Spectacular’ £7.5m Rutland Gardens lateral finds a taker
A buyer has bagged a rather special lateral on Knightsbridge's Rutland Gardens.
Former H&F council leader appointed as joint housing minister
Stephen Greenhalgh, former leader of Hammersmith & Fulham council and then Deputy London Mayor for policing under Boris Johnson, has joined the Ministry of Housing to support Jenrick and Pincher.
Rightmove offers payment deferral plan in response to the Coronavirus crisis
Property portal is offering a six-month deferred payment plan to estate agents "to help mitigate some of the cash flow burden" arising from the Covid-19 outbreak.
Treasury to reconsider VAT relief on listed building repairs
Campaigners are chalking up a win following "a major shift in policy from the Treasury" over tax relief for listed building repairs.
Galliard reaches 50% sold at The Stage, two years ahead of completion
Over half of the 412 private residential units at Galliard's The Stage scheme in Shoreditch have now been forward sold.
Countrywide loses new COO before he even starts
Retail guru Brice Marsh had been due to join the embattled property services group to help with the next stage of its turnaround strategy
Housing Secretary slaps down Mayor Khan’s London Plan
The "intend to publish" draft London Plan is "inconsistent with the pro-development stance that we should be taking", said Robert Jenrick.