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LSL Property Services - New surveying and estate agency firm

February 2007

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  • Epic Code:
  • LSL
  • Price:
  • 237.5p
With dinner party conversation once again turning to how much house prices are increasing, it’s hardly surprising to see residential estate agency and surveying firm LSL Property Services (FT sector: Real Estate) receiving a favourable reception following its debut at 202.5p last November. LSL, which originally comprised a series of estate agencies bought by General Accident in the 1980s, has literally come back from the dead. Back in those go-go days General Accident, like many insurance companies, had a grand plan to buy up blocks of estate agents in order to cross-sell its financial services, such as mortgages and life insurance, to the home buyers. But these fat controllers not only bought at the top of the market but a ...

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