Countrywide defeat puts Hill in trouble (Independent) (Estate Agent)
Countrywide defeat puts Hill in trouble (Independent)
Shareholders in Countrywide rejected a 971m offer yesterday that had been recommended by the estate agent’s board, raising questions over the future management of the group.
Croydon Guardian: Jobs: Local Hot Jobs (Croydon Guardian)
Gascoigne-Pees Estate Agents are currently looking for full time Leaflet Distributors. You will be required to hand deliver a variety of quality marketing material.
3i-backed Countrywide takeover bid voted down (Financial Times)
Countrywide’s shareholders defeated management in its bid to take Britain’s biggest estate agent private. More than 40 per cent of voting investors rejected the attempt, which was backed by 3i, the private equity group.
For sale: Berlin country estate, one Nazi owner (Times Online)
The hideaway villa used by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief, to entertain his lovers is to be put up for sale in an attempt to bail out the cash-strapped city of Berlin.
Estate agents in bilingual text breakthrough (The North Wales Chronicle)
NORTH Wales estate agents, Dafydd Hardy, have this week launched a brand new service which will allow house hunters to get property details direct to their mobile phone 24 hours a day.
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