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Just as it has for all other areas of life and commerce, the Internet has given Estate Agencies and especially Lettings Agents both a great opportunity and a real challenge. While online portals provide a great new location to place listings and drive business your way, a personalised website is...

Letting agents are charging tenants who can't afford to pay hundreds of pounds in inflated fees in what has become a "dysfunctional market", homelessness charity Shelter has warned.    

I worked with a lovely agent last year who kindly invited me to shadow him on a valuation. He had asked me for help to win more instructions without discounting, so I was there to figure out what he was saying, and where I might be able to suggest changes.   Mrs...

The number of homes sold in the UK over the past three months reached its highest level for over three years. The RICS said yesterday that transactions are now at their highest since January 2010 as buyers across the country begin to return to the market. According to the RICS, agents sold...

A new Agents Mutual portal will NOT be another PrimeLocation, says the man masterminding its future. Ian Springett hit back at competitors who have tried to suggest that the new for-agents-by-agents venture would be an exclusive, upmarket portal aimed primarily at London and the shires. Springett said that over 600 firms, representing...

House prices will rise 5.5% by the end of this year and accelerate by nearly 30% over the next five years, Chesterton Humberts has predicted. In its mid-year forecast, the firm says that house price growth in prime central London will average 8% each year between now and 2017. Nick Barnes, head...

Property sales are rising, says national estate agency boards firm Agency Express. It says that in the last five months, it has supplied 8% more Sold boards than for the same period last year. Regional variations show the greatest growth in activity in Scotland and also the East Midlands, where last month...

A new ‘for sale by owner’ property portal is offering agents free listings. BuyMyHome has been set up by Chris Hall, a graphic designer, who was selling his own home through a local agent and stumbled across a ‘for sale by owner’ website. He said he was so appalled by how it...

Agents in East Anglia who have commercial wings to their businesses might be interested in meeting the Co-op. The Co-operative Food’s property team is looking to expand across the East of England, and is looking for new stores, in high street and local community locations, of between 2,000 and 4,000 sq...

Jake Wallis Simons talks to former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond and daughter about property.    

The Government is being urged to give urban trees the same status as other vital infrastructure such as street lighting and utilities.    

We slip our dancing shoes on to track down the best homes with ballrooms, at home and abroad.    

Can you help me with my “Consent To Let” dilemma please? I own a small property portfolio, 4 buy to let property, one property I own as tenants in common with my grandfather (no mortgage on this property) and one residential property that I currently reside in (since Sept 12). Due to changes in my... Read more

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It’s time for me to share some controversial views on why I believe landlord licensing to be a pointless exercise I think. Now don’t get me wrong, I hate the fact that a very small minority of bad landlords have earned our profession a bad reputation. However, it appears they might be a necessary evil... Read more

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TMT companies are hitting “growing pains” as they expand out of co-working spaces but still only need 1,000 to 2,500 sq ft requirements. 

Tracy Kellett
‏@buyingagent

16m

May have whispered it a few times.

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Tracy Kellett
‏@buyingagent

16m

May have whispered it a few times.

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Tracy Kellett
‏@buyingagent

16m

But that would be juvenile.

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Tracy Kellett
‏@buyingagent

17m

Some unhappy prospective buyers tonight, just closed deal on VERY in demand house. Resisting temptation to run around shouting ‘looosers!’.

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The FX Whisper
‏@TheFXWhisper

25m

@melaniebien @aliceemross I’m self motivated, have worked as a journalist, written novels, worked in 7 countries, what do you have in mind?

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