Online sales at 7.5% | iBuyer UK launch | AML warning

Guild launches UK’s first iBuyer platform, but can the US concept succeed over here?

Guild of Property Professionals says its iBuyer platform offers agents a way to help distressed vendors, fend off the 'quick sale' operators and even help counter the online agent threat.

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Online is now 7.5% of the sales market, new report claims, with Purplebricks at 4.98%

The report commissioned by The Guild of Property Professionals also shows that at 5% of sales in 2019,  Countrywide is just ahead of Purplebricks.

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Estate agents hear about new pricing deal with Rightmove and Zoopla, but where was OTM?

OnTheMarket remains tight-lipped about why it didn't join its two competitors to pitch the portal's wares at some 400 estate agents at the Guild conference yesterday in London.

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Agents warned over dangers of relying on ‘gut feel’ to spot AML criminals

88% of estate agents tell iamproperty.com that their instincts are reliable in detecting money laundering in a property sale.

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Property price growth is lower than inflation

Designs on Property tracks and summarises the property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “The shock statistic is that for the first time in a long time, property price growth over the last 12 years is way below the inflation rate, which property normally beats.”

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BREAKING: Former Your Move MD Gareth Samples to take top slot at Martin & Co parent company

The 51-year-old has joined the TPFG empire eight years after leaving Your Move to run digital marketing platform BriefYourMarket.com.

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