LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Countrywide, the UK's biggest estate agency, made a tentative approach to buy the Halifax chain of estate agents from HBOS Plc, the Financial Times newspaper reported without citing sources.
The approach was at an early stage and was rejected by HBOS, it said, adding Countrywide and HBOS both declined to comment. monicca.egoy@thomsonreuters.com mbe/nes COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial News.
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