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Paul Smith Spicerhaart is reigniting its acquisition strategy with a multi-million pound investment in its estate agency and lettings businesses. The firm’s founder and chairman Paul Smith has set out plans to strategically acquire estate agencies with robust lettings portfolios…

Richard Rawlings Estate agents are used to failure, on three levels. A typical estate agency branch, with say 5% market share, knows this, as 95% of their local sellers prefer to use a competing estate agency. That’s the first failure…

Edward Rose Property Group, a franchise partner of Your Move, is expanding its business through a lettings acquisition with the purchase of Team 2 Property Management, an established business serving the local Torquay and Torbay area. The purchase will see…

An estate agency in Plymouth has been saved from closure after the firm that ran it went bust. Pilkington Estates, which launched five years ago by Jon Pilkington, will continue to trade from its offices in Sutton Harbour and Stoke and…

L-R: Cecil Hetherington, Errol Maxwell, Emma McNally, Conor MacCarrick, Jordan Buchanan, and Andrew Gough Two of the biggest property websites in Northern Ireland are to merge. PropertyPal has announced a strategic merger with Propertynews, with a new leadership team set…

L-R: Shona Galloway, Lorraine Doig and Scott Home Sweet Home is opening its second location in Dunfermline. The family-run estate agency, headed up by Scott Galloway and wife Shona four years ago, initially operated from the Kirkcaldy Business Centre and…

Housebuilder Barratt is expected to complete its acquisition of rival Redrow later this week, the two companies have announced in a joint statement. The £2.5bn all-share deal announced in February had come under the scrutiny of the Competition and Market…

A group of private equity firms is “circling” to buy the Lomond Group, according to a Sky News report. ICG and Searchlight Capital Partners are among the buyout funds considering formal bids for the estate agency group, the report said.…

Tom Bill August 2024 could go down as a pivotal month for the property market, according to Knight Frank. Reacting to the latest Rightmove house price index, which has reported an upturn in market activity, the agency is predicting improved…

Neil Cobbold PayProp has been named the Overall PropTech Company of the Year at the 2024 PropTech Breakthrough Awards. The automated rental payment platform for residential letting agents has now scooped six awards in 2024, with wins including Tech Company…