Hooke & Mac's new website design

Sold: new UTV series on estate agents

Sold is a new drama on UTV about estate agents.

It hasn't been very well reviewed, but the reviews have generated some interesting perspectives on estate agents:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/11/16/nosplit/bvtv16last.xml

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/2007/11/i_wasnt_sold_on_sold.html

http://teevieo.com/not-sold-on-itvs-new-show/

New website for JP&M Doyle

It wasn't a moment too soon in coming, but JP&M Doyle's new website (one of the 4pm sites) you could say is nearly worth the wait. It is streets ahead of the old one.


There's some pretty big claims, including: "We have a number of unique marketing tools, which no other estate agent can offer you". We can't quite find what they are on the website. Maybe someone could let us know ...

New regulatory environment

We understand that the Minister for Justice will be announcing the new Code of Practice for Property Services Providers tomorrow. We hunted around a bit online and discovered that the NPSRA has their website live: www.npsra.ie

You can download the new code here: CLICK TO DOWNLOAD >>>

The new regulatory environment.

The new legislation shall apply to the regulation of property services providers. These are persons involved either as corporate bodies, partnerships, sole traders or employees in:

• The purchase or sale, by whatever means, of any estate or interest in land (including buildings) wherever situated;
• The auction of private property other than land;
• The letting of any estate or interest in land wherever situated;
• The provision of property management services.

Thus Auctioneers, Estate Agents, Letting Agents and Property Management Agents will be regulated by the Authority. This will apply not only to property located in the Republic of Ireland, but also to transactions in Ireland which relate to property located abroad.

Regulation not only includes a licensing requirement, but also scrutiny by the Authority during the course of complaint investigations, audits or general inspections. The Authority will have power to sanction a licensee up to and including the suspension or revocation of a licence. Where it considers it necessary, the Authority may bring a prosecution against a licensee which may result in either a large fine or imprisonment or both. Where a person suffers a loss due to the dishonesty of a licensee the Authority may award compensation from the “Compensation Fund” which it will be required by law to maintain. All licensees will be required to pay into the Compensation Fund.

Sherry FitzGerald's New Look

Online ads for Sherry FitzGerald have popped up on various websites, such as independent.ie, rte.ie, facebook.com & hotmail.com promoting the agency's revamped web presence.

2 new services: TELL THE WORLD!

Property Week has launched two new services recently ...

1. Developer.IE

has been set up to hold in one place information of particular interest to property developers, especially:

• Development land on the market
• Development projects going on
• Profiles of property development companies

The most important feature of the site is a Development Land Interactive Map that enables developers to see at a glance the location & summary information of particular sites and then click for more information/the brochure if interested.

2. JobsinProperty.ie

is a simple site aimed at giving property companies a chance to target the precise audience they need to in their recruitment drives. Contact Paul on paul@propertyweek.ie to place your free* ads & notices.

Free to subscribers of PropertyWeek until end February 2008; free to all property companies who register with us until end January 2008.

RE/MAX Exclusive mark Halloween

http://www.remax-ireland.com/OfficeProfile.aspx?OfficeId=9082