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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 19/01/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. Agent & Homes opens second London hub to support its agents Just three months after opening its first high street hub in Ladbroke Grove, Agent & Homes has opened a second hub in Islington. Rollo Miles, the founder of the ground-breaking platform for agents, says the…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 18/01/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. OnTheMarket adds crystal clarity through its Autoenhance tie-up Jason Tebb CEO of OnTheMarket, has just announced yet another commercial tie up with a supplier that will enhance the quality of inventory placed on the portal. Autoenhance.ai, as the name suggests, enhances property images at…
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BREAKING PROPERTY NEWS – 17/01/2022
Daily bite-sized proptech and property news in partnership with Proptech-X. How much inventory do estate agents actually have to sell? Last Friday on my travels, I stopped off at Storrington in West Sussex, your typical sized town. As I walked around the centre with my co-directors Ann and Zara, we peered in all the…
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Rightmove House Price Index: Early-bird sellers benefit from busiest ever start to a New Year
The average price of property coming to market jumps by 0.3% this month (+£852) to £341,019, which is 7.6% higher than in January 2021, the highest annual rate of price growth recorded by Rightmove since May 2016 First-time buyer asking prices hit a new record of £214,176 after a monthly jump of 1.4% Strong demand…
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Homelet Rental Index: Rent Price Increases Yet Again in Final Month of 2021
AVERAGE UK RENT PRICE RISES TO £1060 PCM THE AVERAGE RENT PRICE FOR THE FINAL MONTH OF 2021 WAS 8.3% HIGHER THAN THE SAME TIME IN 2020 EXCLUDING LONDON, AVERAGE PRICE RISES TO £893 LONDON SEES SMALL DECREASE TO £1,752 PCM SOUTH-WEST SEES LARGEST MOM RISE OF 2% YOU CAN FIND FURTHER DETAILS AND DATA TABLES HERE HomeLet has released THE RENTAL INDEX figures…
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WEEKLY NEWS ROUNDUP – 14/01/2022
A roundup of the week’s top property and proptech news stories in partnership with Proptech-X Online agent Strike gets £11m more cash to burn OnTheMarket deepens partnership with Sprift prospecting tool SmartMail Where is mortgage lending going to end up? There’s a new sheriff in town, the great leveller Michael Gove Online agent Strike…
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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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