Countrywide optimistic despite losses, female agent bosses rising, agent fined £72k




Number of female business owners in property industry is "on the rise"

Internal data from national network Winkworth shows increasing number of women are grasping the opportunity to run their own franchises.

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Guild’s first-time buyer market snapshot reveals Brexit divide

Comments from organisation's National Advisory Committee on first time buyer activity reveals a tale of two markets.

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Letting agent fined £72,000 for shocking offences at three HMOs

Muhammad Siddique's fine follows an investigation supported by estate agency Open House, in which he continued to pose as a franchisee despite being fired years ago.

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva; font-weight: bold;">We need rental homes. We need investor landlords!</span>

 
Landlords are still regular recipients of bad press and written attacks. There are people who believe that all landlords are wealthy people who should be punished for owning property. Frances Burkinshaw says, “I find this very strange!”

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Losses mount at Countrywide but ‘back to basics’ is working, it claims

Profits have halved at the troubled estate agency giant but its sales and lettings stock and pipelines are reviving, says Executive Chairman Peter Long.

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