UK's largest estate agent Countrywide issues profit warning

Shares down by almost a fifth as number of UK property sales fall and surveyors report fewer inquiresShares in the UK’s largest estate agent, Countrywide, have tumbled by nearly a fifth after the group issued its second profit warning in three months amid a stalled property market.Countrywide, whose high street brands include Hamptons, Bairstow Eves, Taylors and Gascoigne-Pees, said it had had a disappointing last three months, especially in London and the south-east, with full-year revenu