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Spicerhaart back Agents’ Mutual
The Spicerhaart Group has signed up its 190 resi sales and lettings branches to new 100% agent-owned portal Agents' Mutual, joining the likes of Savills, Knight Frank, Chesterton Humberts, Douglas & Gordon,…
UK has highest property tax rate in the developed world: The full story
Making property taxes fair both politically and economically is no simple task; should tax aim to reduce housing demand or increase housing supply?
Policy Exchange's comprehensive "Taxing Issues?
Rightmove enquiries rocket 80%
Rightmove has reported a decent July-October session with "healthy growth in revenue and earnings" as agents spend more on advertising.
Not For Sale: The art of the direct approach
With some agents reporting eighteen buyers per instruction*, competition for "best in class" has never been tougher.
50% of all prime London homes now worth over £1m – Marsh & Parsons
Over half of the homes in London's prime postcodes are now worth more than a million quid, according to Marsh & Parsons' latest calculations.
That's a rise of 8% on this time last year and 6% since January.
Cine Cab: Zoopla broadcasts local property availability atop taxis
Zoopla is trying out more newfangled tech, using live LED screens atop London cabs to "intelligently broadcast property availability".
Knight Frank builds central resi development team
Knight Frank has added two newbies to its Central Residential Development team, based in Birmingham, "in direct response to the region’s increasing housebuilding activity".
Credit Suisse gives Foxtons shares the thumbs up as sales revenue climbs 28%
Foxtons shares are pricey compared to other property floaters, but that's only right and fair say finance analysts.
The Neg Awards: Winners
We've already had a couple of warm-up acts, but awards season proper got underway last night with the self-styled "property party of the year" (although the MIPIM UK launch at Claridges ran with a similar…
2014 to be the “Year of the Super Suburbs” – Savills
Prime central London property prices are heading for a (slight) fall, says Savills in its big five-year forecast report, as "super suburbs" play catch-up to a "fully-valued" PCL and the mainstream market…
No sign of a slowdown til 2017 – JLL
We've really hit forecast season now.
Crystal Balls: Track all the property predictions for 2014 at PrimeResi.com/Intelligence
JLL takes on 37 new trainees
Jones Lang LaSalle has appointed 37 new trainees to its 2013 UK graduate scheme.
27 will be based in London, with ten other appointments across the firm’s regional office network;