Countrywide

Countrywide Surveying Services has been appointed by HSBC to undertake valuations for its UK brands and businesses, as part of a new agreement that commenced in November.

Countrywide Surveying Services has been appointed sole valuation panel manager for Kent Reliance Building Society.

London Sotheby's International Realty has hired prime central London specialist Nicole Bisson to launch a residential lettings business across central London.

Remortgage activity picked up pace in October, making up 25 percent of all applications and reaching its highest level since March 2009. Consumer confidence has played a key role in this development as a growing number of customers.

Countrywide, the UK's largest mortgage broker and property services group, has signed an agreement with the insurer MarketGuard to distribute its rate capping insurance product, RateGuard.

Accord Mortgages has joined forces with Countrywide Mortgage Services and is now on its panel of mortgage lenders.

Countrywide has appointed a new Managing Director for their Land and New Homes division.

New tenant registering in Q3 reach 61,000.

The latest figures show UK homeowners are choosing to fix their mortgage rates in anticipation of a rate increase.

Zoopla announces it will partner with the UK's three largest estate agent groups.