More high-level concerns have surfaced over the Government’s Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme aimed at people with only 5% deposits. The International Monetary Fund has warned it could backfire, causing house prices to rise and shutting first-time buyers out of the market after it launches next January...

An estate agent has been charged with 12 counts of fraud. Tim Glasson, 50, of Tim Glasson Estate Agents in Trelowarren Street, Camborne, Cornwall, will appear at Truro Magistrates Court on June 13...

Two members of staff at Clive Emson Auctioneers have been promoted to the board.   Ben Snelling and Sam Kinloch join five fellow directors at the expanding firm, which works with a network of 600 estate agency outlets and which has recorded sales of more than £1bn since being founded in 1989 by one of the auction world’s true characters, philanthropist Clive Emson – he genuinely does lots for charity...

As we have said before, we cannot mention all the countless good deeds and charity fundraising events that our big-hearted readers do for good causes...

North-based Hunters has marked its best year in business by taking its top performers on an all-expenses-paid trip to Barcelona. The 20-strong party included successful franchisees as well as members of the management team, who spent three days in the Spanish city...

Fancy your agency being the subject of a TV fly on the wall documentary? The makers of Location, Location, Location are looking for a “charismatic and exciting” firm of estate agents to feature in a new observational-style documentary series...

A group of top agents are putting together a new national property portal which would be wholly owned by agents themselves and aimed at toppling – or cutting down to size – the duopoly of Rightmove and Zoopla...

The James Caan-backed estate agency launch of Ivy Gate is being led by three former Your Move senior figures – and is going on a staff-poaching spree...