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[openai_chatbot] rewrite this content and keep HTML tags as is: Russell Quirk I once predicted that 2024 and then 2025 would be huge years for M&A activity in the estate agency sector. Turns out I was right (it sometimes happens). We have seen and we are seeing the gradual consolidation of the sector where corporate types are buying semi-corporates – think Lomond and KFH, Foxtons and Ludlow Thomson. But also where smaller businesses are being snapped up by ambitious independents, keeping the likes of Lucy Noonan of Atomic Consultancy and new kids on the block, Dwelly, very busy indeed. Connells…

[openai_chatbot] rewrite this content and keep HTML tags as is: A team of employees from estate agency Fenn Wright and mortgage partners Fitch & Fitch completed a 25-mile walk through the Suffolk and Essex countryside to help raise thousands of pounds for a youth cancer charity. The route started from the Fenn Wright office in Sudbury and took a team of 42 along the St Edmund Way, Stour Valley Path and Essex Way, before finishing at their Manningtree branch.   The team set off shortly after 07:45 and completed the walk in 10 hours 23 minutes, with lunch supplied by East…

[openai_chatbot] rewrite this content and keep HTML tags as is: Snippets of industry news: Dawsons appoints new residential lettings operations director; ex-Winkworth sales manager joins Moveli [/openai_chatbot] #Comings #amp #Goings Source link

[openai_chatbot] rewrite this content and keep HTML tags as is: Mortgage tech provider Twenty7tec is reporting a dramatic slowdown in property searches this summer – over four times greater than the dip seen in 2024. New data from the company has revealed that every price band has seen a double-digit fall. But while activity has cooled across the board, demand for the average family home remains the market’s strongest anchor. ]Between 21 June and 21 July 2025, compared to 20 May and 20 June 2025, total property searches fell 17.89%, compared to a 4.35% drop during the same period in…

[openai_chatbot] rewrite this content and keep HTML tags as is: Rightmove has reported a 10% rise in revenue to £211.7m for the six months to 30 June 2025, as the business delivered growth across its core and strategic markets and invested further in technology and AI. Operating profit was up 10% at £145.4m, while underlying operating profit increased 9% to £151.3m. The company has returned £112.4m to shareholders through share buybacks and dividends, with an interim dividend up 9% to 4.05p per share. Basic earnings per share rose 14% year-on-year to 14.1p. Rightmove said platform and network effects remained strong,…

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[openai_chatbot] rewrite this content and keep HTML tags as is: The team at Your Move Chris Stonock raised over £2,600 when they took on a demanding 20-mile coastal trek in aid of the Children’s Heart Unit Fund (CHUF) this month. Walking from Holy Island to Bamburgh Castle, a dedicated team of ten Your Move Chris Stonock colleagues took on the sponsored walk, with colleagues coming together from company branches in Wallsend, Whitley Bay, Crawcrook and Low Fell.  CHUF’s mission is to make life better for children and young people who are born with, or who develop, heart conditions by providing…

[openai_chatbot] rewrite this content and keep HTML tags as is: NatWest has formally appointed PEXA to implement digital property transaction solutions across its mortgage business, in a move aimed at increasing speed, transparency and security for UK homeowners. Under the terms of the commitment, NatWest will begin transacting remortgage cases through the PEXA platform by the end of the first half of 2026, with an intention to extend to sale and purchase transactions in due course. NatWest, which conducted 12.6% of all UK mortgages in 2024 and expanded further through its acquisition of Metro Bank’s residential mortgage book, is the…

[openai_chatbot] rewrite this content and keep HTML tags as is: LSL Estate Agency Franchising has ramped up its support for franchise partners and landlords, following a survey revealing that nearly 40% of DIY landlords may underestimate the impact of the government’s forthcoming Renters’ Rights Bill. The survey, conducted by LSL, highlights a significant knowledge gap among self-managing landlords about the wide-ranging changes expected to be introduced by the Bill.  The proposed legislation, currently making its way through Parliament, is set to bring the most sweeping reforms to England’s private rental sector in decades. Among landlords who manage their own properties,…

[openai_chatbot] rewrite this content and keep HTML tags as is: UK house prices are now expected to rise by just 1% in 2025, with growth of 24.5% forecast over the next five years, according to the latest analysis from Savills. The revised outlook, down from a predicted 4%, follows a slower-than-anticipated start to 2025, with economic and geopolitical turbulence weighing on buyer sentiment and transaction volumes. While interest rates have fallen as expected – with two base rate cuts so far this year – Savills says the market remains “delicately balanced”, citing both global instability and domestic policy changes as key…