Hints and tips:
...One buying agent called into an office in London to arrange a viewing, only to find the head of the branch on his hands and knees, putting masking tape on the floor....
...Rics said more respondents also expected prices to fall not just in the short term, but over the next 12 months....
...The average branch had 304 buyers registered but just 42 vendors. In November, traditionally a busier month for sales than December, the average branch sold seven homes despite having 282 buyers....
...by only including non-RICs....
...At his wife’s encouragement, Nick Smith ended up founding the first UK Independence party branch in Lincoln....
...since January 1978, suggested supply is very tight with the number of residential properties for sale at its second-lowest level since records began — with an average of 56 properties on the books per branch...
...The bank will extend its branch opening hours for two weeks from next week to cope with expected demand....
...However, the average number of sales reported by each chartered surveyor branch, 18.6, was still much lower than before the financial crisis hit in 2008 – about 25....
...Ric Traynor, executive chairman of Begbies Traynor, the Manchester-based insolvency expert, this week predicted a “W” shaped recession across the country, with rising unemployment and insolvencies in 2010...
...Knight Frank’s branch in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, for example, has almost 60 per cent fewer properties to sell than last year....
...One surveyor in Kent said a well-known branch of estate agents had shut down in his area, while others were trying to cut costs and local newspapers were prepared to do deals to shore up advertising revenue...
...“People have bought houses in particular areas to get into particular schools,” says Paul Wilkinson, a branch manager at estate agent Mishon Mackay....
...As with the architecture of the day, so too with this miniature branch of structural design, there was an absolute dearth of originality and style....
...Darren Rose at the West Hampstead branch of Parkheath estate agents blamed the lack of supply on the cost of moving and suggested a vicious circle might be developing....
...“We are not selling houses to the volume we are used to and are now advising some people to trim their prices,” said Scott Mason, branch manager at Bradford and Bingley estate agents....
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