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New figures from Connells suggest the company remains Britain’s biggest estate agent, handling one in 10 transactions. And in its latest report...
05 August 2024
From: Breaking News
I sometimes wonder just how far our national obsession with buying our own homes will stretch. First-time buyers are prepared to save...
02 September 2023
From: Features
Forget the Bank of Mum & Dad, now even siblings are chipping in to help brothers and sisters onto the property...
29 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Connells group chief executive David Livesey has announced his intention to retire during 2024. Highly respected throughout the industry, Livesey joined Connells...
20 June 2023
From: Breaking News
Spicerhaart’s non-executive chairman John Spence has received a special achievement award after announcing his retirement from the board after more than...
12 June 2023
From: Breaking News
In simple terms, as you are probably aware, ‘lenders’ are the organisations who loan you something, in this case money to...
17 May 2023
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Skipton Building Society has unveiled details of the first 100% loan-to-value mortgage launched since the 2008 financial crisis. Aimed at renters, the...
10 May 2023
From: Breaking News
100% mortgages are rumoured to be making a comeback. The products were blamed as a cause for the 2008 financial crash, with...
09 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Connells Group chairman Stephen Shipperley is set to retire at the end of 2022. It comes as he marked his 45th anniversary...
26 October 2022
From: Breaking News
In the third part of this exclusive series with Homesearch’s chief operating officer, Sam Hunter, Angels Media’s Lee Dahill questions him...
22 June 2022
From: Features
First-time buyers have admitted to feeling overwhelmed or scared to talk to estate agents about the homebuying process. A study of 2,000...
14 June 2022
From: Breaking News
The Skipton Building Society, which owns Connells estate agency, says the house-selling arm helped it reach a record profit pre-tax profit...
21 March 2022
From: Breaking News
The man who engineered the takeover of Countrywide by Connells is leaving the agency’s parent company, the Skipton Building Society. David Cutter...
26 January 2022
From: Breaking News
Connells Group says it is the UK's largest estate agency group by market share - and that's before the Countrywide acquisition...
24 February 2021
From: Breaking News
The acquisition of Countrywide by Connells might just be the deal of the century in the British estate agency industry. That’s the...
23 February 2021
From: Breaking News
At the back-end of last year and the start of this, the biggest news stories in town – besides debates over...
30 January 2021
From: Features
Connells, which already has the explicit support of a majority of Countrywide shareholders for its takeover of the company, has now...
26 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Countrywide shareholders will next month have the opportunity to vote on the Connells bid to purchase the troubled estate agency group. The...
25 January 2021
From: Breaking News
In a dramatic New Year’s Eve statement on the London Stock Exchange, Countrywide has agreed the terms of a recommended offer...
31 December 2020
From: Breaking News
All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...