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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 14/07/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and real estate news in partnership with Proptech-X. Today, Stanton looks at Trussle, Property Deals Insight, NHQB, and more. Natalie Elphicke, Chair of New Homes Quality Board in WhatsApp debacle Mortgage Star Wars commences – fintech Trussle bought Connecting thought leadership and proptech Should estate agents wear facemasks after 19th July?…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 13/07/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and real estate news in partnership with Proptech-X. Today, Stanton looks at Mojo Mortgages, Yoti, Savills, and more. Mojo Mortgages exits to ZPG subsidiary as they look to control mortgage cycle Savills employee in police investigation over alleged racist Twitter post Conveyancing Association wants the Government to move “further and faster”…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 12/07/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and real estate news in partnership with Proptech-X. Today, Stanton looks at YOPA, Savills, Government Figures and More Strike Freemium Online Agent Employs New Chief Technical Officer Dan Rafferty Yopa Hires Simon Elliott To Train And Develop Team Savills Employee In Alledged Twitter Racist Abuse Despite Pandemic Gloom Housebuilding Is A…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 09/07/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and real estate news in partnership with Proptech-X. Today, Stanton looks at Help me Fix, Foxtons, Coadjute, and more. Help me Fix connects qualified tradespeople via video in triage and mend service Foxtons dumps Chair Ian Barlow due to share price doldrums Coadjute breaks cover to sell property on the blockchain…
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BREAKING NEWS – top 5 stories 08/07/2021
Daily bite-sized proptech and real estate news in partnership with Proptech-X. Today, Stanton looks at AccuCities, Meet Parker, Halifax, and more. Halifax analysis shows 0.5% drop in house sale prices in June Dominic Grace appointed to the advisory board of Meet Parker AccuCities 3D mapping solution delivers on over 1,800 projects Welsh housing market…
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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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