A total of 1,479 homes were sold at auctions in April. The collective amount raised was £149m, so each residential property went for an average of just over £100,000...

Notorious property fraudster David Watmuff has been jailed for three and a half years after stealing from his own mother. He was sentenced at Newcastle in the name of David Kelso...

Rightmove has robustly defended the way its market share is calculated after an agent accused the site of pulling the wool over agents’ and investors’ eyes...

The Digital Property Group has defended its telephone answering service for agents after one said he knew nothing about it until an angry customer complained that he had left messages which had not been returned...

A company called Express Valuations has tried to clear up the mystery of its persistent phone calls to estate agents. The firm says that it is putting together data from agents on house prices for a monthly report, bought by the likes of asset managers and developers with part-exchange properties...

The Property Ombudsman released – and apparently gave away – its database of estate agents to Yellow Pages six years ago. The deal, which ended last year, materialised only this week after agent Trevor Kent was sent an email by Yell inviting him to advertise, and offering an exclusive deal available only to TPO members...

An advert which suggested that people would do better to put their money into bricks and mortar than keep it in the bank has landed an estate agent in trouble...

Countrywide, the UK’s largest estate agent and mortgage broker, has called for the Government to introduce mortgage lending targets. The call, by financial services director Nigel Stockton, follows warnings from the Bank of England that mortgage rates are set to rise...