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Santander is offering £185 to people who switch from a rival bank.

The offer is open to new and existing Santander customers, using the Current Account Switch Service to switch to certain current accounts.

In order to qualify, you need to switch within 60 days of requesting the move – and within that timeframe pay in at least £1,500 and set up two direct debits.

You’ll then get the money within 90 days.

Who else has offers like this?

HSBC

Hacer Group’s business development manager Vin Sammartino and wife Leigh Ferrier are selling 103 Sackville St, Kew.

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Construction boss and horseracing bigwig Vin Sammartino and wife Leigh Ferrier have listed their trophy Kew house with a $15m-$16.5m price range.

In addition to his role as building company Hacer Group’s business development manager, Mr Sammartino is part of the syndicate behind thoroughbreds Almandin and Rekindling — who took home the 2016 and 2017 Melbourne Cups, respectively.

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1890s mansion hidden in private pocket of Melbourne hits the market for

A “Sale Pending” sign is posted in front of a home for sale on Nov. 30, 2023, in San Anselmo, California. Real estate agents face lower commissions after a major settlement has increased the way Americans buy and sell homes.

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A “Sale Pending” sign is posted in front of a home for sale on Nov. 30, 2023, in San Anselmo, California. Real estate agents face lower commissions after a major settlement has increased the way Americans buy and sell homes.

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The National Association of Realtors has reached

A former real estate agent has agreed to the cancellation of her license and a $55,000 fine to settle allegations of misconduct brought against her by a BC regulator.

Gobinder Kaur Takhar agreed to the sanctions in a consent order with the BC Financial Services Authority earlier this month. A redacted version of the agreement was published on the BCFSA website last week.

According to the order, the allegations against Takhar came from two sisters – identified in the document only as JA and CJ – who purchased a pair of adjacent properties in Chilliwack in 2017.

At the time,

Things are about to get weird for homebuyers and sellers.

I wrote late last year that 2024 would mark the beginning of a great experiment in real estate that would upend the way homebuyers and sellers pay their agents. Well, the experiment officially got underway Friday when the National Association of Realtors agreed to a $418 million settlement to bring to an end a series of class-action lawsuits over agent commissions.

The settlement came after a yearslong battle in which hundreds of thousands of sellers claimed that they were forced into paying unfairly high commissions to real-estate agents. In addition

The Roxbury estate of the late Stephen Sondheim has a buyer.

Photo Credit: Klemm Real Estate & Michael Bowman Photography

Klemm Real Estate said the house sold for the full asking price of $3.25 million in less than two weeks.

Photo Credit: Klemm Real Estate & Michael Bowman Photography

Sondheim brought us Broadway hits including “West Side Story,” “Gypsy,” “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” “Into the Woods” and many more.

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New year, new market – at least that seems to be the case with real estate in Singapore. Property here is dynamic and ever-changing, and not just because of our overnight cooling measures; everything from layout preferences to rental prospects can be different in a year. Here are some of the likely trends we’ll see, based on where we leave off in 2023:

1. Landlords and tenants taking advantage of higher occupancy caps

The occupancy cap on unrelated tenants has been raised: for 4-room or larger flats,

February 2024

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

• I’m Danielle Hale, Chief Economist at Realtor.com® and with 2024 underway, here’s what you need to know!
• 2023 data is still rolling in, and while consumers may not have felt great toward the end of the year, the economy continues to chug along. In fact, real economic growth rose in the quarter, and growth in 2023 surpassed 2022.
• Turning to the labor market, revised data improved the original picture we had of late 2023 and January’s job report was a blockbuster as more than 350,000 jobs were added to the economy and unemployment held