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<span style="font-size: 18px;">Your Move and Reeds Rains staff face redundancy as LSL plans 43 branch closures</span>

Parent company blames UK and geo-political uncertainty on its restructure which will include closing, franchising off or merging over 120 branches.

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Reeds Rains closures: trading one day, gone the next

Just days after announcing that it would close 43 offices across the UK as part of a wider network reduction, LSL branches have already begun closing and staff laid off.

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Supreme Court judgement backs estate agent in ground-breaking contract battle

Five senior judges have thrown out an appeal by a developer who believed he didn't have to pay an estate agent a £42,000 fee.

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There’s no going back: Tenant Fees Bill receives Royal Assent

The Queen has signed the bill, which comes law on June 1st this year, although guidance on how it is to be implemented is expected to be published before that.

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Letting agents using clandestine inventory companies to sidestep fees ban, says trade body

AIIC says tenants are already being offered services by 'independent' inventory firms which in reality are owned by the agent involved.

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Social media strategies</span>


There are common positives and negatives in your social media strategy that you should either abandon or embrace, says Tara Dulake.

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