Estate Agents
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The top ten dodgy estate agent tricks
In survey after survey, estate agents are revealed as one of the most-loathed professions in the UK. Mostly, of course, their reputation for being lazy crooks is undeserved. See also: The Fixer: Selling your home See also: Estate agents make
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Estate agent pulls 'drug factory' listing
A Yorkshire estate agent has removed its listing for a terraced house in Halifax after posting photos that showed it full of cannabis-growing equipment. Last December, police raided the four-bedroom house and found it crammed with 1,200 cannabis
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Seven steps to make your home sell fast
If you want to get the full asking price for your property, then you need to sell within the first 12 days of it going on the market, according to a new study. It's a tall order, but these seven steps could make all the difference. See
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Estate agents make selling homes harder
Greedy estate agents are making the process of selling your home longer, more difficult and far more stressful than it needs to be. They are also costing homeowners thousands of pounds. A report by the Nottingham Building Society found that
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Horrifying cost of moving house is double what we expect
The average buyer spends an incredible £13,219 moving house, which is up 65% over the past ten years. What's even more worrying is that this figure is around twice the sum they originally expected - so many don't have the savings to
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Estate agent offers to house homeless veterans
An estate agent is offering homeless ex-service personnel the chance to move into empty properties free of charge. Paul Banning, who runs Belle Vue Estates Property Management in Low Fell, Gateshead, was moved to act after reading on social media
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Eight buyers for every house
Estate agents say there are more people looking for a new home now than at any other time in the past 11 years. Meanwhile, the number of properties on the market has failed to keep pace - so that the average agent has 462 people looking to buy,
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