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In a recent blog on the CLG website, housing minister Mark Prisk points out that the Government is taking steps to protect landlords and tenants from what he calls ‘unscrupulous lettings agents’...

The RICS has called for estate agents to be compulsorily required to have qualifications. It says it wants to see all agents required to sign up to a professional regulation scheme, to ensure customers are dealing with an agent who is suitably qualified to broker their sale and can advise on the processes involved...

Countrywide has told shareholders: “It’s all about lettings.” In its first interim management statement since returning to the stock market, the property chain which is the UK’s largest estate agent and mortgage broker, shone the light almost exclusively on its lettings business...

Rightmove’s market capitalisation surpassed the £2bn mark this week for the first time – as the firm’s founding boss, Ed Williams, bowed out...

The average price of a house in the UK is now £165,586, Nationwide has reported. It says that the price, for April, is a 0...

An estate agent has given parents’ accommodation at a children’s hospice a £20,000 make-over...

Everyone with an interest-only mortgage is to be contacted by their lender and asked how they will repay their loan...

Your reputation is your most important trading tool, and MeetMyAgent exists to provide agents with the most dynamic platform to manage and promote their independently verified feedback...

An equity release finance specialist is launching a new national business that will work closely alongside estate agents...

The number of mortgage approvals for house purchase crept up to 53,504 in March, up from 51,947 in February and compared with an average of 53,113 over the previous six months...

Facebook business Property Network is to open in Leeds, taking over the former offices of Dacre Son & Hartley, one of Yorkshire’s oldest estate agents...

The Robinson Jackson Group is marking its 21st year in business – with a new 21st branch. The company, which trades across south-east London and Kent, has opened its latest office in Barnehurst...

Tuesday 30th April 2013

National Conveyancing specialists Convey Law have re-affirmed their position as one of the UK’s leading Conveyancing companies by joining the Conveyancing Association...

Xperience pulls plug on Allagents sites

A house price increase this month has been fuelled by a shortage of stock – and by the roaring London market, which is now back to the top-of-the-boom levels of 2007...

Mystery surrounds a decision to take down most of the Xperience brands from the review site Allagents...

Rightmove’s biggest shareholder has described the site as an ‘all you can eat’ model for agents – and says he regrets not buying more of the shares...