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VAS welcomes six new starters

VAS has announced a number of new appointments. Among the six new starters, Joe Bates...

Countrywide Surveying Services welcomes managing surveyor

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has announced the appointment of Gillian Grace as managing surveyor. Grace...

HTB adds AVM option to bridging proposition

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has introduced an Automated Valuation Model (AVM) option to its...

Countrywide Surveying Services appoints head of surveyor development

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has announced the promotion of Kate Marlow to head of...

Small fall in home condition survey commissions

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has reported a slight dip in the number of homebuyers...

VAS Valuation Group expands Knowledge Hub

VAS Valuation Group has added five new videos to its Knowledge Hub. Hope value, comparable...

Keystone Property Finance the first lender to use Method-VM’s new API integration

Method-VM, the valuation and development monitoring panel management firm, has completed the development of...

Hope Capital partners with DeskVal for quicker turnarounds

Hope Capital has teamed up with DeskVal to offer a new, "instant" automated system...

Gen H partners to launch new Property Decisioning Engine

Gen H has partnered with Legal & General Surveying Services and Rightmove to launch...

Virgin Money new purchase exclusives with free valuations

Virgin Money is launching new products tomorrow (Friday 22 November). It has also increased a...

CLSQ introduces “instant” insured property valuations

CLSQ has launched VerifyQ, a service which provides instant insured property valuations to enable...

VAS Panel develops new HMO report template

VAS Panel has introduced a standalone Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) Short Form Report...

Gateway launches ‘zero contact’ property valuation service

Gateway Surveying Services, part of The SimplyBiz Group, has introduced a three-tiered virtual property...

E.surv anticipates growth in demand for its remote valuations

E.surv has extended the deployment of its tailored remote valuation solution. The residential chartered surveyors originally...
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COMMENT

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We must not accept our snail’s pace home buying system

Buying a house in this country can be ridiculously slow, as a handful of recent studies have highlighted. Research from the House Buyer Bureau...

Deferment and capitalisation rates: small percentages, large consequences

The Government is currently consulting on Leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates to determine what deferment and capitalisation rates should be prescribed under the Leasehold and...

Your clients can’t tell which firm they’re dealing with

Two clients walk into your firm in the same week. One of them is a referral from a mate of yours. Complicated case, self-employed, bit...

It’s time to look at retention

As the summer winds down and the back-to-school routine kicks back in, I urge the industry to turn its attention to something just as...

Landlords are buying – and advisers should take note

There has been no shortage of commentary over recent years suggesting landlords are heading for the exit, buy-to-let apparently no longer works and the...

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