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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 13/01/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. First time buyers powered the 2021 housing market, what about 2022? According to HM Land Registry, more than 1.2 million homes changed hands last year, despite the rounds of lockdowns and accompanying mayhem caused by the pandemic. What is now becoming crystal clear is…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 12/01/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. The Guild: Cybercrime claims are on the rise, agents need to prepare Paul Offley, Group Compliance Officer at epropservices, which includes The Guild of Property Professionals and Fine & Country, has come forward with advice in light of the increasing cybercrime-related cases impacting estate…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 11/01/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. OnTheMarket Deepens Succesful Partnership With Sprift And Smartmail Offering At present there is an instructions drought. With the average amount of properties listed for sale per agency branch in the UK at an all-time low, about one third less than normal for a January…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 10/01/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Online agent Strike gets £11m more cash to burn Having recently secured a further £11 million in funding to keep it going, online agent Strike has announced that it is now going national with its free-to-sell agency model. Having been an estate agent for…
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Busiest ever festive period as home-hunters make New Year’s resolution to move
Rightmove recorded its busiest ever festive period for home-mover activity, with buyer demand up by 23% compared to the same period last year The number of new sellers coming to market was up by 21% on Boxing Day compared to Boxing Day in 2020 as people took advantage of the post-Christmas buyer surge. This was…
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Mountain Ash in Wales is this year’s price hotspot
Rightmove analysis of the year reveals Mountain Ash, in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in Wales, is this year’s price hotspot, with average asking prices for homes in the area rising by 31% The average price for a home this year in Mountain Ash is £137,220, compared to £104,431 last year Porth, in…
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WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP – 17/12/2021
A roundup of the week’s top property and proptech news stories in partnership with Proptech-X Gove the great leveller is not levelling up the lettings sector Is Purplebricks on the edge of collapse as share price drops 20% in a day? Estate agents working from home: is it Plan B or a future trend? Over…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 16/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Will the housing market go from boom to bust in 2022? Whilst many estate agents have had a boom year, and property prices have increased nationally by an average price of £31,000, there are now signs that the party may soon be over. The…
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Easton in Bristol is this year’s strongest sellers’ market
Rightmove analysis of the year reveals Easton in Bristol is this year’s strongest sellers’ market, with more than eight out of every ten properties for sale being marked sold subject to contract (SSTC) Hoxton is this year’s top buyer market, with nine out of every ten properties that have come to market for sale still…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 15/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Estate agents working from home: is it Plan B or a future trend? Boris Johnson’s government is now saying that if workers can work from home they should, which means many agents will be doing just that. Perhaps the bigger question is whether this…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 14/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Is Purplebricks on the edge of collapse as share price drops 20% in a day? All signs point to the fact that Purplebricks may be set to fail. Yesterday its share price tanked. This is a shame because as a concept Purplebricks, an online…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 13/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Purplebricks may have yet another multi-million pound problem on its hands The beleaguered Purplebricks, whose share price on the AIM has fallen like a stone in recent times, now has a new potential problem. It has been alleged that it has failed to follow…
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New Year resolution sellers gearing up for 2022 as closer to normal market beckons
The price of property coming to market sees its usual December dip, down by 0.7% (-£2,234) this month Following a hectic last eighteen months, Rightmove predicts a closer to normal market during 2022: While fully available stock for sale has hit a new record low this month, valuation requests from home-owners are 19% up on…
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WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP – 10/12/2021
A roundup of the week’s top property and proptech news stories in partnership with Proptech-X Property Alert Service needs to go further, faster Federation of Independent Agents launches FIACON event in Milton Keynes Women Aged 30-45 Leading the Charge for Sustainable Retrofits in UK Homes Hybrid or not…What is the right model for estate agents…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 09/12/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Will Plan B and the Omicron variant close the housing market down? The property market is once again at a crossroads, with the Bank of England deciding next week if it will raise the base rate to offset the 5% inflationary rate that is…
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