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In any successful estate agency, there are three components you need to get right: you have to get the valuations, win the instructions and then sell the properties. Only then can you actually bank a fee you may have worked months or even years to earn. ...

The launch of a new national property portal, to be owned by agents for agents, has received an overwhelming response from the industry. The story, which broke on EAT yesterday, resulted in Ian Springett, who has been hired to drive forward the project...

More high-level concerns have surfaced over the Government’s Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme aimed at people with only 5% deposits. The International Monetary Fund has warned it could backfire, causing house prices to rise and shutting firs...

An estate agent has been charged with 12 counts of fraud. Tim Glasson, 50, of Tim Glasson Estate Agents in Trelowarren Street, Camborne, Cornwall, will appear at Truro Magistrates Court on June 13. Glasson was released on police bail after being cha...

Two members of staff at Clive Emson Auctioneers have been promoted to the board.   Ben Snelling and Sam Kinloch join five fellow directors at the expanding firm, which works with a network of 600 estate agency outlets and which has recorded sales o...