Your weekend roundup of top news

Purplebricks prepares to radically change its fixed fee model<br />

Company's CEO says it is looking at several options due to launch this Autumn including dual fees and split payments at instruction and sale

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BooHoo! Fashion mogul launches Tinder-style property portal app

Adam Kamani, who is the son of BooHoo founder and also a property developer, is offering agents a free listing on the smartphone-based portal for the first 12 months.

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Letting agents are ignoring ‘No DSS’ court case decision at their peril, warns Shelter<br />

Despite warning, Propertymark says failings of the Universal Credit payment system are the root cause of discrimination among landlords and letting agents.

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'Nine-to-five is gone in estate agency' says Haart - but was it ever like that?

Claim is made by young new recruit to Haart's new Partner programme with previous at Countrywide and Purplebricks.

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INSIGHT: Lender lockdown?

Richard Reed takes the temperature of the property finance market and discovers some worrying effects of the COVID-19 crisis.

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‘Distance selling’: COVID-proofing your branch

“Welcome to my office but don’t stand there, sit on that or touch this.” Welcome to agency branches in the COVID-19 era, says Lisa Isaacs.

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HMRC targeting property industry over furlough fraud

Leading employment law firm warns estate agencies to come clean, or risk arrest, over staff who were furloughed but asked to carry on working during lockdown.

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Rightmove hires new financial chief on £1.75m package

Alison Dolan is to join the portal after many years spent working for Rupert Murdoch's newspaper and TV empire in the UK.

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LSL reveals hefty cost of its failed merger attempt with Countrywide

Estate agency giant LSL publishes the legal and other costs so far of its doomed attempt to merge with rival Countrywide this year.

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COVID: Profits slump by 54% at Savills’ UK residential operation

Figures would be worse but for 'an oustanding' performance at its lettings and build-to-rent division, and a sharp recovery in the country sales market.

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‘Say No To Rightmove campaigner: ‘We’re changing the way portals treat agents’

Dreamview Estates MD and 'Say No To Rightmove' activist Murray Lee says the industry campaign to change the way portals operate is working.

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New issue – online for you to read now!

Here's your digital edition of The Negotiator, August 2020 issue, the UK's only trade magazine for estate and letting agents – a monthly mix of features, comment, opinion, information, new products and who's making the news in residential property.

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Rightmove to introduce big changes to agents’ property details pages

Portal says it has already introduced them at its oversesas business and that the pages are quicker and generate more leads.

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