Estate Agency News
Longer opening hours don’t improve estate agents’ performance
Stick to the 9-5 agencies, advises GetAgent
Four Berkshire estate agents accused of illegally fixing fees
The alleged price-fixing cartel operated for almost seven years from 2008, says the Competition & Markets Authority
Watch: Norwood Property Lunch raises £530k for charity
The 20th Norwood Property Lunch took place last week, with 700 industry players joined by guest speaker Michael Gove to raise funds for vulnerable children and their families
Zoopla lambasts ‘new & exclusive’ property listings
Two-thirds of vendors and house-hunters would rather list on all available property portals straight away
40 Years of Mega-Deals: Gary Hersham picks his greatest hits, from Kensington embassies to Monaco penthouses
The Beauchamp Estates founder celebrates four decades in business with a retrospective of legendary super-prime deals...
Almacantar re-appoints agencies ‘to complete the sales process’ at Centre Point
CBRE & Knight Frank are back on the case at Centre Point, as PCL's top-end sales market shows signs of recovery
£50m deal flurry for Aylesford as international buyers shrug off Brexit uncertainty
PCL agency reports a quartet of high-end sales across Belgravia, Kensington & Notting Hill, including a stonking townhouse on Eaton Square;
Purplebricks share shuffle as Woodford sells & Toscafund buys
Beleagured fund manager Neil Woodford has offloaded a chunk of his shares in the hybrid estate agency; hedge fund Toscafund has snapped up a bigger holding
Knight Frank promotes 131
47 Knight Frankers step up to become Partners in the business; 84 to Associate level
Axel Springer doubles Purplebricks stake
German media company ploughs £43.7m into UK-based hybrid estate agency to take a 26.6% holding
Most property vendors believe that traditional estate agents ‘represent good value for money’
69% of recent sellers who used a traditional high street estate agency thought that the fees represented good value
Agents see more deals per branch, despite falling supply & demand
'Sales are still happening at the rate we would expect to see at this time of year', says the National Association of Estate Agents