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The Power of V – how to best use video on social media – live session. Today, 3pm


Industry software providers, BriefYourMarket and Yomdel have teamed up to run a daily Protection & Planning Webinar series to support agents. Join Chris Targett today at 3pm.

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Online AML registration system for upmarket letting agents finally goes live

Agents renting properties for more than £8,400 a month have until January next year to register their businesses for AML and comply with the regulations.

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Home buyer activity surges to pre-Coronavirus levels, latest research shows<br />

Zoopla says estate agents are enjoying extraordinary boom in housing market revival, but warns spike is likely to be temporary.

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Government pays £1 billion to release apartment leaseholders from cladding nightmare<br />

Some 600,000 leaseholders within towers fitted with unsafe cladding will soon be able to sell their homes now that their freeholders can apply for government funding to complete the work.

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Furlough system ‘must be reformed’ to help estate agents survive market restart<br />

The Home Buying & Selling Group says Chancellor must remove three-week furlough rule to enable staff to be moved into and out of system on a weekly basis..

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Easyproperty ‘star’ franchisee restarts agency after a trying few months

Rugby player Ian Watts had only just launched his fledgling business when the Coronavirus crisis struck but has now sold two properties.

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