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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 07/07/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and real estate news in partnership with Proptech-X. Today, Stanton looks at RICS, Meet Parker, Hubble, and more. Bank of Ireland UK offers green mortgages for green homes Hubble tops up investment and offers wider services RICS gives reasons why raw materials for building properties are rising Purplebricks announces ‘strings attached’…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 06/07/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and real estate news in partnership with Proptech-X. Today, Stanton looks at Boris Johnson, Ministry of Housing, 5G, and more. 19th July: No facemasks and back to the office for agents? Is the 5G revolution fact or fiction? Ministry of Housing unveils building safety bill The Legal Services Consumer Panel tracker…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 05/07/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and real estate news in partnership with Proptech-X. Today, Stanton looks at Purplebricks, AskHomey, John Lewis, and more. Purplebricks has its day of reckoning Dharmesh Mistry sees into the future, says all the dots will join up John Lewis follows Lloyds Bank into lettings NRLA: The laws underpinning the PRS are…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 4 stories 02/07/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and real estate news in partnership with Proptech-X. Today, Stanton looks at Strike, The Property Ombudsman, Grenfell, and more. Online estate agents Strike scales up with 80 new hires Property Ombudsman ejects agents due to failings After Grenfell cladding failure, maybe training is key to future safety SDLT gains wiped out…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 01/07/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and real estate news in partnership with Proptech-X. Today, Stanton looks at Rightmove, Virtual Reality, Freeths, and more. Rightmove analysis shows 1.3 million benefited from SDLT holiday Is Virtual Reality becoming the homebuyer’s best friend? Propertymark ratifies its two new Presidents Freeths annual survey throws light on tech use in Real…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 30/06/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and real estate news in partnership with Proptech-X. Today, Stanton looks at Help to Buy, Lets Bid, House of Lords, and more. We have flying cars but it still takes 28 weeks to sell a house Help to Buy scheme has helped over 300,000 buy a property since 2013 House of…
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1.3 million buyers benefitted from stamp duty holidays as June deadline looms
Rightmove estimates that 1.3 million buyers benefitted from the stamp duty holidays across Great Britain since they were announced in July last year The national average asking price of a home has increased by almost £16,000 since July last year Research by Rightmove among buyers expecting to benefit from the stamp duty holiday found only…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 29/06/2021
DOORSTEPS – AKSHAY RUPARELLA CEO RESIGNS FROM ONLINE AGENT Is the online agent party over – Akshay Ruparella has been shown the door. HOUSING MARKET OVERHEATS WITH 13% PLUS ANNUAL PRICE INCREASE They say the property market goes from boom to bust, let us hope this is not the case. Nationwide has just produced figures…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 28/06/2021
WILL A £12,500 HAIRCUT BE THE NORM FOR THE £500,000 PROPERTY? Always there is a direct reaction to any action that takes place, never more so in the property world. For a large amount of time buyers buying at £500,000, have enjoyed a SDLT saving of £15,000 thanks to the Chancellor. As of the 1st…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 25/06/2021
NUMBER OF SOLICITORS FINED BY SOLICTORS REGULATION AUTHORITY OVER AML LAPSES It has just been announced, the SRA has fined a number of solicitors, due to their failure to have in place the correct procedures for anti-money-laundering. On a related point given that last year over £10M was paid out to cover the indiscretions of…
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Record number of homes selling for asking price or above
The latest available sold price data from Land Registry reveals more than a third of homes have achieved their final asking price or above (37%), the highest percentage recorded by Rightmove This is a jump from 28% in January 2020, and significantly higher than the long-term average of 23% between 2005 and 2021 The frenetic…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 24/06/2021
CMA TURNS UP THE HEAT ON NEW HOME LEASEHOLD SCANDAL After two years of setting up an investigation, where the CMA (competitions and Marketing Authority) looked closely into the widespread practice of making some new homes subject to a leasehold agreement, where charges could be racked up, making some properties unsaleable, and owners facing huge…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 23/06/2021
CONNELLS & YOTI IN TIE UP OVER DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION YOTI who specialise in a digital solution to identifying an individual, so that everyone can deal with that person knowing they are actually doing so, have recently acquired Connells as a client. Though I must disclose that YOTI are a client of my company Proptech-PR, having…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 22/06/2021
IS AIRBNB KILLING THE PRIVATE TENTAL SECTOR According to a report in the Guardian recently, they found that though there were only 62 properties in the Cornwall are listed on Rightmove for rent, Airbnb by contrast had over 10,000 listings for accommodation in the same area. So two things at play, holidaymakers seem to be…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 21/06/2021
JUST EIGHT WORKING DAYS TO END OF STAMP DUTY HOLIDAY The 30th of June 2021, is the hard stop date for the full SDLT ‘holiday’ that the Chancellor put in place, and it coming upon all of the those in the sector at a pace. To get the benefit, up to £15,000 of relief, properties…
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