The chance for estate agents to control their own industry has been lost for good, OnTheMarket founder Trevor Abrahmsohn has claimed. Writing...
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11 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The founder of OnTheMarket has revealed why the portal floated on the stock market and why Ian Springett was the right...
20 May 2020
From: Breaking News
An estate agent in London claims he did £53m of property deals within hours of the Conservative victory in the General...
16 December 2019
From: Breaking News
A stridently anti-Labour estate agent has launched a stinging attack on the Opposition’s policies and has issued a stark warning of...
07 November 2019
From: Breaking News
One of the country’s most prominent estate agents has given renewed backing to a pilot project on reservation agreements, being tested...
22 October 2019
From: Breaking News
One of the country’s leading estate agents is leading the calls on Chancellor Sajid Javid to sort out the government’s stamp...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...
23 July 2019
From: Breaking News
One of the country’s leading estate agents says shifting the burden of stamp duty away from the buyer - which is...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...
06 July 2019
From: Features
While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...
25 May 2019
From: Features
One of the capital’s most outspoken estate agents at the upper end of the market has given eye-watering statistics to show...
22 May 2019
From: Breaking News
A top London estate agent says the humble For Sale board remains the cheapest and most effective marketing tool - even...
24 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Hello and welcome to Property Jobs Today - your final chance before the Easter break to catch up with the key...
15 April 2019
From: Breaking News
More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...
30 March 2019
From: Features
A London estate agent says his system of ‘moral agreements’ between sellers and buyers prevents chains collapsing and means his company has...
08 February 2019
From: Breaking News
It’s the word on everyone’s lips: after two and a half years of debate, and months before that leading up to...
11 January 2019
From: Breaking News
The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...
30 October 2018
From: Breaking News
One of London’s highest profile and most outspoken estate agent chiefs has scolded ‘Maybot’ Theresa May on the day she is to...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News
A London estate agent who works closely with High Net Worth overseas buyers has hit out a proposed law which he...
18 September 2018
From: Breaking News
One of London’s leading estate agents says Brexit has had at worst a neutral effect on the housing market and may...
08 August 2018
From: Breaking News
An outspoken high-end London estate agent says millionaire foreign buyers purchasing “cheap” properties in the capital represent what he calls “the...
05 July 2018
From: Breaking News
An outspoken estate agent has given the government a clear message - get off our backs , ease the red tape...
01 June 2018
From: Breaking News
One of London’s leading estate agents is advising sellers to consider giving the negotiator who sells their property a bonus, and...
20 March 2018
From: Breaking News
The printing industry is in the midst of a decline as digital products and services displace printed materials, which is why...
03 February 2018
From: Features
No one can ever accuse high-profile London agent Trevor Abrahmsohn of doing things the boring way That applies to closing a deal...
05 January 2018
From: Breaking News
One of prime London’s most senior estate agents says stamp duty is “strangling the residential property market” in areas of the...
18 December 2017
From: Breaking News
Conservative MP John Stevenson is the latest to throw his weight behind switching the burden of stamp duty from the buyer...
09 October 2017
From: Breaking News
The Queen’s speech to the British parliament this week was a scaled-back affair, which was unsurprising given the Grenfell Tower fire,...
23 June 2017
From: Features
Theresa May’s call for a snap general election on June 8 took many by surprise. But estate agents have been broadly...
03 June 2017
From: Features
Trevor Abrahmsohn, one of London’s best known estate agents and a founder of OnTheMarket, says stamp duty should be split between...
03 May 2017
From: Breaking News
Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...
11 March 2017
From: Features
Jeremy Leaf, the London estate agent and former RICS residential chairman, is the latest industry figure to call for the government...
06 March 2017
From: Breaking News
Looking ahead to the Spring Budget this week, the Chancellor Philip Hammond will be obliged to face up to the implications...
04 March 2017
From: Features
An estate agent and a building society have both advocated radical moves to reform stamp duty - and want Chancellor Phillip...
03 March 2017
From: Breaking News
Following a strong start to 2016, particularly in the lower to middle range of the UK housing market, that lasted up...
17 December 2016
From: Features
Prominent top end London estate agent Trevor Abrahmsohn says some homes in the higher levels of the market may now have...
07 December 2016
From: Breaking News
The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...
09 September 2016
From: Features
One of London’s most outspoken estate agents claims the prime minister who succeeds David Cameron could appoint a chancellor who will...
27 June 2016
From: Breaking News
The sense of gathering momentum for the Leave campaign ahead of the upcoming EU referendum is causing high levels of uncertainty...
17 June 2016
From: Features
One of the directors of Agents’ Mutual, parent body of portal OnTheMarket, has told Estate Agent Today that his firm does...
22 April 2016
From: Breaking News
And so it begins. Four months and counting before we vote to leave or remain. For a country apparently so divided about...