Changes to the management structure at NFoPP were announced this morning. No new chief executive of NFoPP will be appointed, while three new managing director roles are being created in a move which underlines that the umbrella body will now take a back seat and take on a purely operational role…
Monday 18 June 2012
Zoopla has signed a deal with a major newspaper group, seemingly unaware of the group’s plans to simultaneously launch a property portal aimed at private landlords and which deliberately cuts out agents…
Monday 18 June 2012
Asking prices for property have edged up yet again, to set a third consecutive record, Rightmove reported this morning. The average asking price of a property new to the market now stands at £246,235, up 1% from May’s £243,759…
Monday 18 June 2012
Countrywide, the UK’s largest chain of estate agents and mortgage brokers, has repeated its call for compulsory lending targets. Financial services director Nigel Stockton was speaking after the Bank of England’s decision to pump £80bn into banks on the condition that they passed the money on in the form of affordable mortgages and business loans…
Monday 18 June 2012
Network Auctions will be holding its next auction at its national auction room at Glaziers Hall overlooking the River Thames in London on July 4 at 1pm…
Monday 18 June 2012
Property Place, a Facebook application that enables estate agents to advertise properties on the social networking site, has won new financial backing and appointed a heavyweight industry figure as its chairman…
Monday 18 June 2012
An entrepreneur has entered the estate agency portals market with a series of local boutique websites. Neil Harvey, 29, has so far created 20 local portals throughout the South-West, and plans to launch in Birmingham next month…
Monday 18 June 2012
The housing market could be about to improve, if a dramatic new move by Chancellor George Osborne pays off. Last night, he and Bank of England governor Mervyn King unveiled a plan to unleash vast sums of money via high street banks…
Monday 18 June 2012
Mike Bidwell, former chief executive of Fine & Country, has returned to the franchise business just over a year after quitting. He has been appointed to run Fine & Country’s new Cambridge office, opening at the end of this month…